1801 in art

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Events in the year 1801 in Art.

Events

Works

Marie-Denise Villers, Young Woman Drawing, 1801, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

• Fyodor Alekseyev – Red Square in Moscow
• Jean Broc – The Death of Hyacinthos
• John Flaxman – Marble memorial to William Jones in chapel of University College, Oxford
• François Gérard – Portrait of Empress Josephine
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes (Apothéose des héros français morts pour la patrie pendant la guerre de la liberté) (approx. date)
• Francisco Goya – Charles IV of Spain and His Family
• Philip James de Loutherbourg – Coalbrookdale by Night
• J. M. W. Turner – Dutch Boats in a Gale (the Bridgewater Sea Piece)
• Marie-Denise Villers – Young Woman Drawing

Births

• January 4 – James Giles, Scottish landscape painter (died 1870)
• January 26 – John Quidor, American painter (died 1881)
• February 1 – Thomas Cole, American painter (died 1848)
• April 14 – Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian (died 1892)
• April 30 – André Giroux, French painter and photographer (died 1879)
• July 26 – Maria Röhl, Swedish painter (died 1875)
• September 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (died 1852)
• date unknown
  • Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (died 1860)
  • Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (died 1850)
  • Robert Richard Scanlan, Irish painter and portraitist (died 1876)
  • Alexey Tyranov, Russian painter (died 1859)
• probable (born 1801/1804) – Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (died 1866)

Deaths

• January 30 - Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian sculptor (born 1751)
• February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-born painter (born 1726)
• March 3 – Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver (born 1746)
• April 7 – Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1724)
• May 29 – Jan Bulthuis, Dutch draftsman and painter (born 1750)
• June 28
  • Martin Johann Schmidt, Austrian Rococo painter (born 1718)
  • Francis Wheatley, English portrait and landscape painter (born 1747)
• June 30 – Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian-born portrait sculpture and republican, guillotined in France (born 1751)
• August 16 – Ralph Earl, American historical and portrait painter (born 1751)
• September 6 - William Tyler, English sculptor and architect, co-founder of the Royal Academy of Arts (born 1728)
• October 11 – John Donaldson, Scottish-born miniature painter in enamel and watercolour (born 1737)
• November 14 – Sigmund Freudenberger, Swiss painter (born 1745)
• December 2 – William Hamilton, English historical and decorative painter (born 1751)
• date unknown
  • Filippo Pennino, Italian sculptor (born 1755)