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. The Rijksmuseum moves from The Hague to Amsterdam, where it is located temporarily at the Royal Palace. Thomas Phillips is elected to the Royal Academy.
Works
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) 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 Atala Napoleon Receiving the Keys of Vienna 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 Bather 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 Tilsit 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 Bridge
Publications Johann Dominicus Fiorillo – . 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.
Births February 5 – Carl Spitzweg, German Biedermeier painter (died 1885) February 26 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and illustrator (died 1879) 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) 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) December 4 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic (born 1763) December 18 – Christina Chalon, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1748) December 22 – Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (born 1750)
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