1796 in art explained

Events from the year 1796 in art.

Events

Printing by lithography is invented by Alois Senefelder in Bohemia.^[1]
Ann Jemima Provis and her father Thomas Provis perpetrated the Venetian secret scandal where they falsely claimed to have found a document describing Renaissance-era painting methods. A number of prominent artists were fooled, most notably Benjamin West.^[2]

Works

Henry Fuseli – The Night-Hag visiting the Lapland Witches
Anton Graff – George Leopold Gogel
Antoine-Jean Gros – Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole
Hugh Douglas Hamilton – Lord Edward Fitzgerald
- - Thomas Lawrence Portrait of the Duke of Leeds
- Portrait of Lord Hawkesbury
- The Children of John Julius Angerstein
Henry Raeburn – Rev. Alexander Carlyle
Edward Savage – The Washington Family
Gilbert Stuart – Lansdowne portrait of George Washington
J. M. W. Turner – Fishermen at Sea (his first oil painting to be exhibited at the Royal Academy)
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt

Births

February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Madou, Belgian painter and lithographer (died 1877)
February 5 – Pieter Godfried Bertichen, Dutch painter and lithographer (died 1856)
May 24 – Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher (died 1852)
May 28 – William Miller, Scottish Quaker line engraver (died 1882)
June 27 (bapt.) – George Vincent, English landscape painter of the Norwich School (died c. 1832)
June 30 – Antonin Moine, French romantic sculptor (died 1849)
July 2 – Michael Thonet, German-born furniture designer (died 1871)
July 3 – Maria Martin, American watercolor painter (died 1863)
July 17 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (died 1875)
July 26 – George Catlin, American painter specializing in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (died 1872)
August 21 – Asher Brown Durand, American painter of the Hudson River School (died 1886)
August 30 – Julien-Léopold Boilly, French draughtsman and watercolorist (died 1874)
September 4 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver and lithographer (died 1842)
September 5 – Jacobus Cornelis Gaal, Dutch painter and etcher (died 1866)
September 24 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (died 1875)
October 9 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator (died 1878)
October 19 – Carl Wagner, German romantic landscape painter (died 1867)
October 24 – David Roberts, Scottish painter (died 1864)
October 30 – Wilhelm August Rieder, Austrian painter and draughtsman (died 1880)
November 4 – John Neagle, American portrait painter (died 1865)
date unknown
- Gilles-François Closson, Belgian landscape painter (died 1842)
- Joseph Farey, English mechanical engineer and draughtsman (died 1829)
- Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, Italian engraver (died 1855)
- Achille Etna Michallon, French landscape painter (died 1822)
- Marcin Zaleski, Polish painter (died 1877)
probable – John Ternouth, English sculptor (died 1848)

Deaths

March 9 – Saverio Gandini, Italian painter (born 1729)
March 29 – Johan Philip Korn, Swedish painter (born 1728)
April 2 – Ulrika Pasch, Swedish miniaturist painter (born 1735)
August 6 – David Allan, Scottish painter of historical subjects (born 1744)
August 8 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (born 1724)
September 3 – Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau, French painter and winner of the Grand prix de Rome (born 1733)
November 2 – Domenico Pozzi, Swiss painter (born 1745)
November 12 – Margareta Christina Giers, Swedish painter (born 1731)
December 29 – Miguel Verdiguier, French sculptor (born 1706)
date unknown
- John Frederick Miller, English illustrator (born 1759)
- Hugh Robinson, British history and portrait painter (born 1756)
probable – Francesco Battaglioli, Italian painter of veduta and capriccios (born 1722)

Notes and References

Book: Meggs, Philip B.. A History of Graphic Design. 1998. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. 146. 0-471-291-98-6.
Book: Waters, Douglas G.. Bloomington, IN : Archway Publishing. 978-1-4808-0138-7. A portrait of rivalry : an untold story. 2024-01-04. 2013. 103-106.