# 1808 in art

Events in the year 1808 in Art.

## Events

* May 2 and May 3 – In Spain the guerrilla resistance movement against the French forces of Napoleon Bonaparte begins; immortalized in 1814 by Francisco Goya's Third of May 1808.
* April 5 – John James Audubon marries Lucy Bakewell.
* The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, is given the title of Royal Academy of Fine Arts by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.
* The Rijksmuseum moves from The Hague to Amsterdam, where it is located temporarily at the Royal Palace.
* Thomas Phillips is elected to the Royal Academy.

## Works

* Louis-Léopold Boilly – Departure of the Conscripts
* Antonio Canova – Venus Victrix (marble reclining nude)
* Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of Arthur Wellesley
* François-Xavier Fabre – The Judgement of Paris
* François Gérard
** Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte
** Portrait of Talleyrand
* James Gillray – The Spanish Bullfight
* Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
** The Burial of Atala
** Napoleon Receiving the Keys of Vienna
** François-René de Chateaubriand
** Hortense de Beauharnais
* Antoine-Jean Gros – Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau
* Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
** The Valpinçon Bather
** Oedipus and the Sphinx
* Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Children of Ayscoghe Boucherett
* Adolphe Roehn – The Meeting of Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I at Tilsit
* J. M. W. Turner – View of Richmond Hill and Bridge

## Publications

* Johann Dominicus Fiorillo – Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste.
* Robert Blair – The Grave, with illustrations from designs by William Blake (including A Vision of the Last Judgment).
* Augustus Charles Pugin & Thomas Rowlandson – Volume 1 of The Microcosm of London, illustrated in aquatint from watercolours produced jointly by Pugin & Rowlandson and published by Rudolph Ackermann in London.

## Births

* February 5 – Carl Spitzweg, German Biedermeier painter (died 1885)
* February 26 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and illustrator (died 1879)
* March 6 – Sofia Adlersparre, Swedish painter (died 1862)
* July 12 – Edward Troye, Swiss-born American equine painter (died 1874)
* December 14 – Édouard De Bièfve, Belgian painter (died 1882)
* Date unknown – Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in the Biedermeier artistic tradition and the Nazarene movement of 19th century German painters (died 1873)

## Deaths

* February 10 – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Irish portrait artist (born 1740)
* March 1 – Fredrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish textile artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1738)
* March 3 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (born 1733)
* April 10 – Jean-Laurent Mosnier, French painter and miniaturist (born 1743)
* April 15 – Hubert Robert, French painter (born 1733)
* April 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French Rococo painter, designer and engraver (born 1728)
* June 1 – Jacques Kuyper, Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer (born 1761)
* June 6 – Magdalene Bärens, Danish still life and flower painter (born 1737)
* December 4 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic (born 1763)
* December 18 – Christina Chalon, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1748)
* December 22 – Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (born 1750)