# 1797 in art

Events from the year 1797 in art.

## Events

* Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans established in France.

## Works

* Caspar David Friedrich – Landscape with Temple in Ruins
* François Gérard – Belisarius
* Francisco Goya – Bernardo de Iriarte
* Anton Graff – Elisa von der Recke
* Henry Howard – Anne Flaxman (approximate date)
* Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Sir Edward Pellew
* Henry Tresham – The Earl of Warwick's Vow Previous to The Battle of Towton

## Births

* January 19 – Cornelia Aletta van Hulst, Dutch painter (died 1870)
* April 5 – Johann Fischbach, Austrian painter of landscapes and genre art (died 1871)
* May 29 – Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter and draughtswoman (died 1836)
* June 13 – Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, French engraver (died 1892)
* July 12 – Adele Schopenhauer, German papercut artist and novelist (died 1849)
* June 16 – Sophie Fremiet, French painter (died 1867)
* July 17 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (died 1856)
* August 8 – Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter (died 1890)
* August 20 – Johan Frederik Møller, Danish painter and photographer (died 1871)
* September 5 – John Blennerhassett Martin, American painter, engraver and lithographer (died 1857)
* September 13 – Joseph Stannard, English painter of the Norwich school (died 1830)
* September 19 – Jan Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer (died 1875)
* September 25 – Cornelis Kruseman, Dutch painter (died 1857)
* October 9 – Henry Collen, English Royal miniature portrait painter (died 1879)
* October 29 – Friedrich Loos, Austrian Biedermeier style painter, etcher and lithographer (died 1890)
* date unknown
** Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter (died 1865)
** Tommaso Benedetti, English-born Austrian painter (died 1863)
** Louis-Henri Brévière, French wood-engraver (died 1869)
** Joseph-Désiré Court, French painter of historical subjects and portraits (died 1865)
** Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (died 1858)
** Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design (died 1863)
** Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer (died 1860)
** Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter (muralist) (died 1880)
* probable
** John O'Keeffe, Irish portrait and figure painter (died 1838)
** Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting and belonged to the Utagawa school (died 1861)

## Deaths

* February 12 – Pierre-François Basan, French engraver (born 1723)
* March 6 – William Hodges, English landscape painter (born 1744)
* March 30 – Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter (born 1723)
* April 4– Pierre-François Berruer, French sculptor (born 1733)
* June 23 – Antonio Diziani, Italian painter of veduta, landscapes and vistas (born 1737)
* July 18 – Jean-Bernard Restout, French painter (born 1732)
* August 18 – Josiah Spode, English potter (born 1733)
* August 29 – Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (born 1734)
* September 29 - George Raper, English nature artist (born 1769)
* December 14 – John Robert Cozens, English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes (born 1752)
* date unknown
** Manuel Francisco Álvarez de la Peña, Spanish sculptor (born 1727)
** Christina Elisabeth Carowsky, Swedish portrait painter (born 1745)
** Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver (born 1721)
** Emanuel Granberg, Finnish painter (born 1754)
** Thomas Kirk, English painter, illustrator and engraver (born 1765)