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Overview of the events of 1783 in art
Events from the year 1783 in art.
Events
Works
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Portrait of
Marie Antoinette, the "muslin" portrait
Thomas Gainsborough,
Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich.
Births
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January 2 –
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (died
1853)
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January 4 –
Aleksander Lauréus, Finnish painter (died
1823)
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February 10 –
Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist (died
1873)
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March 25 –
Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, French painter (died
1855)
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April 5 –
Andrew Geddes, British painter (died
1844)
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April 29 –
David Cox, English landscape painter (died
1859)
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May 29 –
Benedetto Pistrucci, Italian-born British engraver (died
1855)
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June 19 –
Thomas Sully, English-born American portrait painter (died
1872)
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September 17 –
Samuel Prout, English water-colour painter (died
1852)
[2]
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October 4 –
Jens Peter Møller, Danish painter (died
1854)
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December 14 –
Alexandre-François Caminade,
French
portraitist and a
religion
painter (died
1862)
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December 18 –
Johan Niclas Byström, Swedish sculptor (died
1844)
- date unknown
Deaths
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January 24 –
George Michael Moser, Swiss-born enameller (born
1706)
[3]
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March 26 -
Anna Rosina de Gasc, German portrait painter (born
1713)
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April 12 –
Johann Melchior Kambly,
Swiss
sculptor who took part in the development of the architectural style of
Frederician Rococo (born
1718)
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April 14 –
Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French engraver (born
1707)
[4]
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May 26 –
Anna Maria Hilfeling,
Swedish portrait
miniaturist artist (born
1713)
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July 8 –
Johann Jakob Zeiller,
Austrian fresco painter (born
1708)
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August 4 –
Johannes Rach, Danish painter and draughtsman (born
1720)
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August 19 –
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt,
German
sculptor most famous for his collection of busts of faces contorted in extreme
facial expressions (born
1736)
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August 29 –
William Wynne Ryland, English engraver (born
1738)
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November 19 –
Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, French painter who specialized in portraits executed in
pastels (born
1715)
- date unknown
References