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1792 art
Events from the year 1792 in art.
Events
30 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1792 opens at Somerset House in London
Ozias Humphry is appointed Portrait Painter in Crayons (i.e., pastels) to King George III of Great Britain.Claiming the Stones/naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity 9780892366736 Getty Research Institute 2002 65
François-André Vincent becomes a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.
The Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, Sweden, is founded as the Kungliga Museet ("Royal Museum").Nationalmuseum Stockholm Scala Books 1995 9781857590487 10
Works
thumb|Portrait of Arthur Atherley by Thomas Lawrence
thumb|General George Washington at Trenton John TrumbullCooper Helen A. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery 2008 Yale University Art Gallery 978-0-300-12289-3 116–117 General George Washington at Trenton New Haven, Conn.
Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of George, Prince of Wales
Jacques-Louis David – Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine (unfinished)https://www.thehistoryofart.org/jacques-louis-david/portrait-of-madame-marie-louise-trudaine/ Portrait of Madame Marie-Louise Trudaine Tom Gurney History of Art 23 January 2025
Henry Fuseli – Falstaff in the Laundry BasketFalstaff im Wäschekorb https://collection.kunsthaus.ch/en/collection/item/1588/ 2026-04-20 collection.kunsthaus.ch
Anne-Louis Girodet – Hippocrates Refusing the Gifts of ArtaxerxesCrow, Thomas. Emulation; Making Artists for Revolutionary France. Yale University Press, 1995. p.140
Samuel Jennings – Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences
Alexander Kucharsky – Louis-Charles, Prince Royal of France
Thomas Lawrence
Portrait of Arthur Atherley
Portrait of the Duke of Portland
Portrait of George IIIhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/george-iii-17381820-55196
Portrait of Graham Moore
John Julius Angerstein and His Wife
Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Destruction of Pharaoh's Army
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Anne Pitt as Hebe
Lady Hamilton as a Bacchante
George Stubbs
A Couple of Foxhounds
Rhinoceros
John Trumbull
Alexander Hamilton
General George Washington at Trenton
Utamaro – Famous Beauties of Edo, Ten Learned Studies of Women and Ten Types of Women's Physiognomies (print series begun)
Births
February 19 – Lucie Ingemann, née Mandix, Danish religious painter (died 1868)https://www.kulturarv.dk/kid/VisWeilbach.do;jsessionid=A3E6221D1E4B77D02F5795E17D31E985?kunstnerId=2558&wsektion=alle Lucie Ingemann Westergaard, Hanne Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon 6 July 2025 de
February 24 – István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor (died 1856)
June 14 – Peter Andreas Brandt, Norwegian painter and illustrator (died 1862)https://snl.no/Peter_Andreas_Brandt Peter Andreas Brandt Store Norske Leksikon 6 July 2025
June 16 – John Linnell, English landscape painter (died 1882)P. & D. Colnaghi & Co John Linnell A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Watercolours and Paintings by John Linnell and His Circle https://books.google.com/books?id=NV9IAQAAIAAJ 1973 Lund Humphries 1787
June 26 – Christian Albrecht Jensen, Danish painter (died 1870)
August 9
Alvan Fisher, United States landscape and genre painter (died 1863)
Charles-François Lebœuf, French sculptor (died 1865)
August 12 – Hans Harder, Danish painter and drawing master (died 1873)
August 30 – Alexis Joseph Depaulis, French sculptor and medallist (died 1867)
September 1 – Chester Harding, American portrait painter (died 1866)
October 31 – Jean-Baptiste Roman, French sculptor (died 1835)
December 17 – George Hayter, English portrait painter (died 1871)
December 20 – Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French designer and painter, especially of military subjects (died 1845)
date unknown
Arnoldus Bloemers, Dutch painter of flowers, fruit, and animals (died 1844)Peter Mitchell Great Flower Painters: Four Centuries of Floral Art https://books.google.com/books?id=_fM3AQAAIAAJ 1973 Overlook Press 978-0-87951-008-4 52
Carl Georg Enslen, Austrian painter (died 1866)
Ferdinand Wolfgang Flachenecker, German painter (died 1847)
James Arthur O'Connor, Irish landscape painter (died 1841)
James Pollard, British painter and aquatint engraver especially of coach, fox hunting and equine scenes (died 1867)
Ulla Stenberg, Swedish damask maker (died 1858)
William Guy Wall, American painter of Irish birth (died 1864)
Thomas Wyon, English engraver of medals (died 1817)Samuel Redgrave A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists https://books.google.com/books?id=_hsGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA494 1878 Bell 494
1792/1793: George Mills, British sculptor, engraver and medallist (died 1824)
Deaths
February 1 – Nicolas-Guy Brenet, French historical painter (born 1728)
February 21 – Jacob Schnebbelie, English illustrator and engraver (born 1760)Schnebbelie, Jacob
February 23 – Sir Joshua Reynolds, English painter, specializing in portraits (born 1723)Joseph Farington Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds https://books.google.com/books?id=krZNAAAAYAAJ 2005 Pallas Athene 978-1-84368-001-7 151
March 3 – Robert Adam, Scottish-born architect and interior designer (born 1728)Frank N. Magill The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 4 https://books.google.com/books?id=HaHdAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA7 13 September 2013 Routledge 978-1-135-92414-0 7
May 7 – Aert Schouman, Dutch painter, glass engraver and art dealer (born 1710)
December 4 – Antonio Ponz, Spanish painter (born 1725)The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful Knowledge https://archive.org/details/pennycyclopaedi14unkngoog 1840 Charles Knight 397
December 12 – William Hoare, English painter, noted for his pastels (born 1707)
December 17 – Gottlieb Welté, German etcher and landscape painter (born 1745/1749)
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Francesco Appiani, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Rome and Perugia (born 1704)
Manuel de la Cruz, Spanish painter (born 1750)Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain) Goya and His Times: Royal Academy Winter Exhibition 1963-4 https://books.google.com/books?id=khPqAAAAMAAJ 1963 Royal Academy 13
Pietro Scalvini, Italian painter (born 1718)The Medal British Art Medal Society 2001 27
Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style (born 1726)
References
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