# 1793 in art

Events from the year 1793 in art.

## Events

* August 10 – The Louvre in Paris opens to the public as an art museum, with 537 paintings.
* Henry Fuseli begins to paints scenes from Paradise Lost.
* Aleksander Orłowski joins the Polish army; this leads to his participation in the Kościuszko Uprising.

## Works

* William Beechey
** Sir Francis Ford's Children Giving a Coin to a Beggar Boy
** Sarah Siddons with the Emblems of Tragedy
* William Blake – For Children: The Gates of Paradise (engravings)
* Mather Brown – Louis XVI Saying Farewell to His Family
* Antonio Canova – Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss (marble statue, 1st version, commissioned 1787, enters Louvre 1824)
* Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat
* Francisco Goya – Attack on a Coach
* Pierre-Narcisse Guérin – The Death of Brutus
* Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Siege of Valenciennes
* John Opie – Boadicea Haranguing the Britons
* François Marie Suzanne – terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin
* Utamaro – Three Beauties of the Present Day (nishiki-e color woodblock print; approximate date)

## Births

* January 15 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer (died 1865)
* February 13 – Philipp Veit, German Romantic painter (died 1887)
* June 1 – Augustus Earle, English artist (died 1838)
* June 3 – Edmund Thomas Parris, English history, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer (died 1873)
* July 19 – Thomas Doughty, American landscape painter (died 1856)
* August 3 – Jacques-Jean Barre, French engraver and designer of French medals, the Great Seal of France, bank notes and postage stamps (died 1855)
* October 11 – Johan Erik Lindh, Swedish painter and former decorative painter who moved to Finland (died 1865)
* November 3 – Thomas Ender, Austrian painter (died 1875)
* November 5 – Antoine Maurin, French lithographer (died 1860)
* November 16 – Francis Danby, Irish landscape painter from the south of Ireland (died 1861)
* November 17 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter and art collector (died 1865)
* November 25 – Robert Havell, Jr., English principal engraver of Audubon's The Birds of America (died 1878)
* December 3 – Clarkson Frederick Stanfield, English marine painter (died 1867)
* December 7 – Joseph Severn, English portrait and subject painter (died 1879)
* date unknown
** Henry Perronet Briggs, English portrait and historical painter (died 1844)
** Margaret Sarah Carpenter, née Geddes, English portrait painter (died 1872)
** Erin Corr, Irish engraver (died 1862)
** Angelus de Baets, Belgian painter of portraits and architectural subjects (died 1855)
** Luo Bingzhang, Han Chinese official, military general, calligrapher and devout Confucian scholar (died 1867)
** Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout, Belgian historical and genre subject painter (died 1861)
** Jean-Antoine-Siméon Fort, French artist painting in oil and watercolours (died 1861)
** Václav Mánes, Czech painter (died 1858)
** Angélique Mezzara, French portrait painter and miniaturist (died 1868)
** Boris Orlovsky, Russian sculptor (died 1837)
** Louis Royer, Austrian Netherlands sculptor (died 1868)
** Watanabe Kazan, Japanese painter, scholar and statesman (died 1841)

## Deaths

* January 1 – Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter of veduta (born 1712)
* March 2 – Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born painter (born 1711)
* May 15 - Peter Adolf Hall, Swedish-French artist who mainly devoted himself to miniature painting (born 1739)
* May 29 – John Webber, English landscape artist (born 1751)
* July 5
** Alexander Roslin, Swedish portrait painter (born 1718)
** Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, Flemish sculptor and architect (born 1710)
* September 9 – Peter Perez Burdett, English draughtsman (born c.1734)
* October 5 – José del Castillo, Spanish painter and a leader of the artistic movement Illustrious Absolutism (born 1737)
* November – Dominic Serres, French-born painter of naval maritime scenes (born 1719)
* November 7 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter (born 1724)
* November 20 – Teodor Ilić Češljar, Serbian painter of the late Baroque and Rococo period of Vojvodina (born 1746)
* December 13 – Michel-Bruno Bellengé, French painter (born 1726)
* date unknown
** Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (born 1746)
** Maria Carowsky, Swedish artist (born 1723)
** Ignazio Collino, Italian sculptor (born 1724)
** Hendrik de Meijer, Dutch painter (born 1744)
** Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver (born 1746)
** Giuseppe Sanmartino, Italian sculptor during the Rococo period (born 1720)
** Dominic Serres "the Elder", French-born marine painter (born 1722)
** Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (born 1723)