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1808 art
February 2025
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.
May 2 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1808 opens at Somerset House in London
April 5 – John James Audubon marries Lucy Bakewell.Henderson County, Kentucky Biography of Audubon. Accessed 9 April 2015
October 15 – The Salon of 1808 opens at the Louvre in Paris
The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, is given the title of Royal Academy of Fine Arts by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.William Sandby The History of the Royal Academy of Arts from Its Foundation in 1768 to the Present Time Longman, Roberts, & Green 1862 64
The Rijksmuseum moves from The Hague to Amsterdam, where it is located temporarily at the Royal Palace.The beginning https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/organisation/history-of-the-rijksmuseum History of the Rijksmuseum Rijksmuseum 2 February 2018
Thomas Phillips is elected to the Royal Academy.
Works
thumb|Portrait of Talleyrand by François Gérard
René Théodore Berthon – Napoleon Receiving the Senate Deputies in Berlinhttps://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE004994
Louis-Léopold Boilly – Departure of the Conscripts
Antonio Canova – Venus Victrix (marble reclining nude)Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945 Catharine Edwards Cambridge University Press 1999 9780521591973 60
Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of Arthur Wellesley
François-Xavier Fabre
The Judgement of Paris
Lucien Bonaparte at the Villa Rufinellahttps://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/tableaux-1400-1900-online-pf2569/presumed-portrait-of-lucien-bonaparte-1775-1840
François Gérard
Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte
Portrait of Talleyrand
James Gillray – The Spanish Bullfight
Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson
The Burial of AtalaWakefield David 1978 Chateaubriand's 'Atala' as a Source of Inspiration in Nineteenth-Century Art https://www.jstor.org/stable/879073 The Burlington Magazine 120 898 13–24 879073 0007-6287
Napoleon Receiving the Keys of ViennaCumming, Robert Art Dorling Kindersley 2008 264
François-René de Chateaubriand
Hortense de Beauharnais
Antoine-Jean Gros
General Lasalle at the Siege of StettinCitizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830. Harry N. Abrams, 2007. p.333
Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
The Valpinçon Batherhttps://mini-site.louvre.fr/ingres/1.4.2.1_en.html 1806–1824 - Rome and Florence Louvre 4 February 2025
Oedipus and the Sphinx
Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of the Children of Ayscoghe Boucherett
Thomas Phillips – Venus and Adonis
Adolphe Roehn – The Meeting of Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I at TilsitMichel Franceschi Ben Weider Wars Against Napoleon: Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars Savas Beatie 2008 132
J. M. W. Turner
The Battle of Trafalgarhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-battle-of-trafalgar-as-seen-from-the-mizen-starboard-shrouds-of-the-victory-n00480
Margate
Pope's Villa at TwickenhamHunt, John Dixon. Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture. MIT Press, 1992. p.225
The Forest of Berehttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-forest-of-bere-t03875
Sheerness as Seen from the Norehttps://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/69601/sheerness-as-seen-from-the-nore
Tabley, Windy Dayhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/tabley-cheshire-the-seat-of-sir-j-f-leicester-bt-windy-day-103915
The Unpaid Billhttps://chronicle250.com/1808
View of Richmond Hill and Bridgehttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-view-of-richmond-hill-and-bridge-n00557 View of Richmond Hill and Bridge Tate 4 February 2025
Publications
Johann Dominicus Fiorillo – de 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.
thumb|Goya – Prison Interior. 42.9 cm x 31.7 cm, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
Births
February 5 – Carl Spitzweg, German Biedermeier painter (died 1885)
February 26 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and illustrator (died 1879)Daumier, Honoré 7 849
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) https://runeberg.org/sqvinnor/0142.html Düben, Fredrika Eleonora von 1864 Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor 1 March 2019
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)https://kvindebiografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Magdalene_Margrethe_B%c3%a4rens Magdalene Margrethe Bärens Dyveke Helsted Kvindebiografisk Leksikon 13 February 2025
December 4 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic (born 1763)
December 18 – Christina Chalon, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1748)Chalon, Christina (1749-1808) http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/19563494 Het Biografisch Portaal 4 February 2025
December 22 – Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (born 1750)Shelley, Samuel 52
References
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