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Births

  • April 14 – Firmin Didot
    Firmin Didot
    Firmin Didot was a French printer, engraver, and type founder. He invented the word "stereotype", which in printing refers to the metal printing plate created for the actual printing of pages , and used the process extensively, revolutionizing the book trade by his cheap editions...

    , French printer, engraver, and type founder (d. 1836
    1836 in art
    -Works:*Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot – Diana Surprised By Actaeon*Antoine Wiertz – Les Grecs et les Troyens se disputant le corps de Patrocle-Births:*January 8 – Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-English painter...

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  • April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann
    Rudolph Ackermann
    Rudolph Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman.- Biography :...

    , printer and lithographer (d. 1834
    1834 in art
    -Works:-Paintings:*Edward Hicks – Peaceable Kingdom*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian, -Sculptures:*Antoine-Augustin Préault – The Killing -Births:...

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  • May 11 – Grigory Ugryumov
    Grigory Ugryumov
    Grigory Ivanovich Ugryumov was a Russian painter. He is often described as the first Russian history painter.Ugryumov was born in Moscow. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg from 1170 to 1785, and also attended schools in France and Italy...

    , Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n painter (d. 1823
    1823 in art
    -Works:*Gilbert Stuart - Portrait of John Adams *Ferdinand Waldmüller – Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven-Births:*March 1 – Charles Callahan Perkins, art critic and author...

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  • May 20 – Johann Gottfried Schadow
    Johann Gottfried Schadow
    Johann Gottfried Schadow was a German sculptor.-Biography:Schadow was born in Berlin, where his father was a poor tailor....

    , sculptor (d. 1850
    1850 in art
    -Events:*Francisco Goya's engravings, Proverbios, are posthumously published.*Edouard Pingret relocates to Mexico City.-Awards:* Grand Prix de Rome, painting: William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Paul Baudry.* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:...

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  • July 9 – Louis-Pierre Baltard, architect and engraver (d. 1846
    1846 in art
    -Works:*Thomas Cole – Catskill Landscape*Louis Hersent – Portrait of Delphine Gay*Edward Hicks – Noah's Ark*Jean-François Millet – Prometheus Unbound*George Frederic Watts – Paolo and Francesca-Births:...

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  • August 22 – Charles Percier
    Charles Percier
    Charles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days...

    , architect and designer (d. 1838
    1838 in art
    -Events:*August 31 - David Roberts sets sail for Egypt, with the encouragement of J. M. W. Turner, to produce a series of drawings for use as the basis for the paintings and lithographs.-Works:...

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  • date unknownGiacomo Guardi
    Giacomo Guardi
    Giacomo Guardi was an Italian painter from Venice. The son of famous veduta painter Francesco Guardi, he continued his father's line of work, though without the same level of renown...

    , Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     veduta
    Veduta
    A veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista....

     painter (d. 1835
    1835 in art
    -Works:*John Constable – The Valley Farm*Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot – Hagar in the Desert-Births:*March 31 – John LaFarge, painter and stained-glass artist *June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet...

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  • probableQian Du
    Qian Du
    Qian Du ; ca. 1764-1844 was a Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty ....

    , Chinese
    China
    Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

     landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty
    Qing Dynasty
    The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....

     (d. 1844
    1844 in art
    -Events:*July 31 – Opening of the Wadsworth Atheneum, the oldest art museum in the United States.*H. Fox Talbot begins publication of The Pencil of Nature, the first photographically illustrated book to be commercially published .-Works:...

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Deaths

  • May 3 – Francesco Algarotti
    Francesco Algarotti
    Count Francesco Algarotti was an Italian philosopher and art critic.He also completed engravings.He was born in Venice to a rich merchant. He studied at Rome for a year, and then Bologna, he studied natural sciences and mathematics...

    , Italian philosopher, engraver and art critic (b. 1712
    1712 in art
    -Paintings:* Series The Seven Sacraments by Giuseppe Maria Crespi.-Births:*February 19 - Arthur Devis, English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits...

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  • July 20 – Peter van Bleeck
    Peter van Bleeck
    Petrus Johannes van Bleeck was a Dutch portrait painter and engraver active in London, where he moved in 1723....

    , portrait painter and engraver (b. 1697
    1697 in art
    -Births:* October 28 – Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice * Bernard Accama or Bernardus, Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland...

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  • October 26 – William Hogarth
    William Hogarth
    William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"...

    , English painter credited with pioneering western sequential art
    Sequential art
    Sequential art refers to the art form of using a train of images deployed in sequence to graphic storytelling or convey information. The best-known example of sequential art is comics, which are a printed arrangement of art and balloons, especially comic books and comic strips.The term is rarely...

     (b. 1697
    1697 in art
    -Births:* October 28 – Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice * Bernard Accama or Bernardus, Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland...

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  • date unknown
    • Marco Benefial
      Marco Benefial
      Marco Benefial was an Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome. Benefial is best known for his repudiation of 18th century decorative Rococo styles pre-eminent in the Rome dominated by Carlo Maratta pupils....

      , Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome
      Rome
      Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

       (b. 1684
      1684 in art
      -Births:*January 14 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Dutch painter *October 10 - Antoine Watteau, French painter **Karl Aigen, German painter, master painter/tutor with Daniel Gran in Vienna...

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    • Sebastiano Conca
      Sebastiano Conca
      Sebastiano Conca was an Italian painter.He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, who acted as his assistant, he settled at Rome, where for several years he worked in chalk only, to...

      , Italian painter (b. 1680
      1680 in art
      -Events:*Following the death of Sir Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller is appointed Principal Painter to the Crown by King Charles II of England.-Births:*January 3 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco plasterer *date unknown...

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    • Johanna Marie Fosie
      Johanna Marie Fosie
      Johanna Marie Fosie was a Danish painter, the first professional native female artist in Denmark.- Biography :The daughter of Anna Dorothea Ilsøe and the painter Jacob Fosie, who was a teacher in drawing in his home. She learned to paint from him, together with her siblings Michael Fosie and...

      , Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (b. 1726
      1726 in art
      -Paintings:* Johann Heinrich Tischbein painted Portrait of the Artist's first Wife, Marie Sophie Robert.-Births:* October 16 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter * Katsukawa Shunshō – Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style...

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    • Okumura Masanobu
      Okumura Masanobu
      was a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijinga...

      , Japan
      Japan
      Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

      ese print designer, book publisher, and painter (b. 1686
      1686 in art
      -Events:*Pierre Granier is commissioned to provide a new right arm for the recently-discovered Jupiter de Smyrne.*Bogdan Saltanov becomes head of the painting workshop of the Kremlin Armoury.-Births:...

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    • John Wootton
      John Wootton
      John Wootton was an English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes, and illustrator.-Life:Born in Snitterfield, Warwickshire , he is best remembered as a pioneer in the painting of sporting subjects – together with Peter Tillemans and James Seymour – and was considered the...

      , English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes (b. 1682
      1682 in art
      -Births: *February 13 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian rococo painter *April 15 – Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter *August 15 - Annibale Albani, Italian Cardinal, whose library, gallery of paintings/sculpture, and cabinet of coins were added to the Vatican collection *October 24 - William Aikman...

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