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Overview of the events of 1787 in art
Events from the year 1787 in art.
Events
Works
Jacques-Louis David –
The Death of Socrates (
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York)
Awards
Births
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January 7 –
Patrick Nasmyth,
Scottish
landscape painter (died
1831)
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February 3 –
Karl Joseph Brodtmann, Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller (died
1862)
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March 10 –
William Etty,
English painter, especially of
nudes (died
1849)
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April 9 –
William Finden, English line engraver (died
1852)
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August 17 –
Maxim Vorobiev, Russian
Romantic landscape painter (died
1855)
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August 20 –
Jean-Pierre Cortot,
French sculptor (died
1843)
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September 11 –
Karl Wilhelm Wach,
German painter (died
1845)
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September 18 –
Johann David Passavant, German painter,
curator and
artist (died
1861)
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October 2 –
Nicolas Gosse, French historical painter (died
1878)
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October 13 –
William Brockedon, English painter (died
1854)
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November 18 –
Louis Daguerre, French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the
daguerreotype process of
photography (died
1851)
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November 22 –
Copley Fielding, English watercolour landscape painter (died
1855)
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December 16 –
François Joseph Heim, French painter (died
1865)
- date unknown
Deaths