# 1787 in art

Events from the year 1787 in art.

## Events

* Seventeen-year-old Thomas Lawrence arrives in London and takes lodgings near Sir Joshua Reynolds.

## Works

* William Beechey – Dorothea Jordan as Rosalind
* Antonio Canova – Tomb of Pope Clement XIV
* Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Socrates (completed)
* Thomas Gainsborough
** Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
** Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
* Francisco Goya
** Highwaymen Attacking a Coach
** The Snowstorm (Winter)
** The Swing
* Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Marie Antoinette and her Children (completed)
* Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine – Portrait of a Woman with Her Son and Daughter in a Balcony Window
* Philip James de Loutherbourg – Snowdon from Capel Curig
* George Romney – Mrs Jordan as Peggy
* Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein – Goethe in the Campagna
* Benjamin West – The Institution of the Order of the Garter

## Awards

* (unknown)

## Births

* January 7 – Patrick Nasmyth, Scottish landscape painter (died 1831)
* February 3 – Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller (died 1862)
* March 10 – William Etty, English painter, especially of nudes (died 1849)
* April 9 – William Finden, English line engraver (died 1852)
* August 17 – Maxim Vorobiev, Russian Romantic landscape painter (died 1855)
* August 20 – Jean-Pierre Cortot, French sculptor (died 1843)
* September 11 – Karl Wilhelm Wach, German painter (died 1845)
* September 18 – Johann David Passavant, German painter, curator and artist (died 1861)
* October 2 – Nicolas Gosse, French historical painter (died 1878)
* October 13 – William Brockedon, English painter (died 1854)
* November 18 – Louis Daguerre, French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the daguerreotype process of photography (died 1851)
* November 22 – Copley Fielding, English watercolour landscape painter (died 1855)
* December 16 – François Joseph Heim, French painter (died 1865)
* date unknown
** Heinrich Adam, German painter (died 1862)
** Giuseppe Bisi, Italian painter, mainly of landscapes (died 1869)
** Johannes Flintoe, Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (died 1870)
** Harriet Gouldsmith, English landscape painter and etcher (died 1863)
** François-Joseph Navez, Belgian neo-classical painter (died 1869)
** Xavier Sigalon, French Romantic painter (died 1837)

## Deaths

* February 4 – Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (born 1708)
* March 17 – Anton August Beck, German engraver (born 1713)
* June 23 – Pierre L'Enfant, French painter (born 1704)
* July 25 – Arthur Devis – English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits (born 1712)
* September 5 – John Brown, Scottish portrait-draftsman and painter at Edinburgh (born 1749)
* November 10 – Cristoforo Dall'Acqua, Italian painter and engraver (born 1734)
* December 12 – Jean Valade, French painter (born 1710)
* date unknown
** Mason Chamberlin, English portrait painter (born 1727)
** John Cheere, English sculptor (born 1709)
** Nicolas Desportes, French painter of hunting scenes (born 1718)
** Erik Westzynthius the Younger, Finnish painter (born 1743)
** Francesco Zugno, Italian Rococo painter (born c. 1708)
* probable - Thomas Engleheart, English sculptor and modeller in wax (date of birth unknown)