List of years in Art

Events in the year 1802 in Art.

Events

• The Journal of the Royal Institution records one of the first experiments in photography.
• Antonio Canova models the bust of Napoleon later used for his statue Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker.
• Marie Tussaud first exhibits her wax sculptures in London, having been commissioned during the Reign of Terror in France to make death masks of the victims.

Works

• John Constable – Dedham Vale
• François Fleury-Richard – Valentine of Milan weeping for the death of her husband Louis of Orléans
• François Gérard – Madame Récamier
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Apotheosis of French Heroes Who Died for the Fatherland during the War of Liberation
• Christian Gottlieb Schick – Portrait of Wilhelmine Cotta (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart)
• Manuel Tolsá – Equestrian statue of Charles IV (Mexico City)
• John Trumbull – Self-portrait (Yale University Art Gallery)
• Utamaro – Ten Forms of Feminine Physiognomy (print series)
• Rafail's Cross (woodcarving, Rila Monastery, Bulgaria)

Births

• May 20 – David Octavius Hill, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (died 1870)
• June 17 – Hermann Goldschmidt, German painter and astronomer (died 1866)
• August 26 – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (died 1848)
• December 25 – Richard Parkes Bonington, English landscape painter (died 1828)
• Undated
  • Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist (died 1871)
  • Henry Room, English portrait painter (died 1850)

Deaths

• April 27 – Josef Kramolín, Czech fresco painter (born 1730)
• June 20 – Gaetano Gandolfi, Bolognese painter (born 1734)
• September 12 – Philip Jean, Jersey-born miniaturist painter (born 1755)
• September 30 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian Neoclassical sculptor (born 1753)
• October 16 – Joseph Strutt, English engraver and antiquary (born 1749)
• October 24 – John Ramage, Irish American goldsmith and miniaturist (born 1748)
• November 9 – Thomas Girtin, English painter and etcher (born 1775)
• November 15 – George Romney, English painter (born 1734)
• December 5 – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (born 1760)
• December 17 – Johannes Wiedewelt, Danish sculptor (born 1731)
• December 27 – Jens Juel, Danish portrait painter (born 1745)
• date unknown
  • Ivan Argunov, Russian painter (born 1727)
  • James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake (born 1730)
  • Giuseppe Canale, Italian painter and engraver (born 1725)
  • Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes (born 1735)