# 1798 in art

Events from the year 1798 in art.

## Events

* English painter Robert Smirke begins to produce The Seven Ages of Man series for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery.

## Works

* William Beechey
** George III and the Prince of Wales Reviewing Troops
** Thomas Hope
** Portrait of George, Prince of Wales
* Louis-Léopold Boilly – Meeting of Artists in Isabey's Studio
* John Singleton Copley – Portrait of Henry Addington
* François Gérard – Cupid and Psyche
* Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Jean-Baptiste Belley
* Francisco Goya
** Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (approximate date)
** Witches' Sabbath
* Antoine-Jean Gros – Le pont d'Arcole
* Thomas Lawrence
** Caroline, Princess of Wales
** John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus
* John Opie – Portrait of Amelia Opie
* Thomas Whitcombe – The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797

## Births

* January 8 – John Graham Lough, English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a variety of portrait sculpture (died 1876)
* January 9 – Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (died 1880)
* February 17 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of paintings, murals and frescos (died 1865)
* March – David Hay, Scottish-born interior decorator (died 1866)
* March 12 – Elizabeth Goodridge, American painter specializing in miniatures (died 1882)
* April 26 – Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (died 1863)
* June 22 – Ditlev Blunck, Danish painter (died 1854)
* July 16 – Abbondio Sangiorgio, Italian sculptor (died 1879)
* July 29 – Carl Blechen, German painter specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (died 1840)
* September 28 – Charles-Philippe Larivière, French academic painter and lithographer (died 1876)
* October 13 – Herman Wilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor (died 1868)
* October 24 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (died 1866)
* November 29 – Alexander Brullov, Russian painter, teacher and architect (died 1877)
* December 8 – Antoine Laurent Dantan, French academic sculptor (died 1878)
* date unknown
** John Cart Burgess, English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes (died 1863)
** Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects (died 1866)
** Konstantin Danil, Serbian painter (died 1873)
** William Egley, English miniature painter (died 1870)
** James Eights, American scientist and watercolour painter (died 1882)
** Thomas Foster, Irish portrait painter (died 1826)
** James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (died 1863)
** Demeter Laccataris, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin (died 1864)
** Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and archaeologist (died 1880)
** Robert Seymour, English illustrator (suicide 1836)
** Rafael Stupin, Russian painter (died 1860s)
** Henry Bryan Ziegler, British landscape and portrait painter (died 1874)

## Deaths

* January 4 – Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter (born 1723)
* January 25 – Christopher Unterberger, Italian painter of the early-Neoclassical period (born 1732)
* February 9 – Antoine de Favray, French-born portrait painter (born 1706)
* May 25 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German (born 1754)
* May 27 – Franciszek Pinck, Polish sculptor and stucco artist (born 1733)
* August 28 – Charles Catton, English painter (born 1728)
* October 30 – Anton Hickel, Bohemian painter (born 1745)
* December 8 – Richard Newton, English caricaturist, of typhus (born 1777)
* date unknown
** Giuseppe Angeli, Venetian painter of the late-baroque (born 1709)
** Christopher Hewetson, Irish sculptor (born c. 1737)
** Innocenzo Spinazzi, sculptor (born 1726)
** Mikhail Shibanov, Russian painter (b. unknown)
** Vincenzio Vangelisti, Italian engraver (born 1740)