1806 in art

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Events in the year 1806 in Art.

Events

• January 18 – The British Institution opens its gallery in Pall Mall, London.
• Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, begins to ship the Elgin Marbles to Britain from Greece.

Works

Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Napoleon on his Imperial Throne, 1806, oil on canvas, 260 x 163 cm, Musée de l'Armée, Paris

• Antonio Canova – Napoleon as Mars the Peacemaker (bronze nude)
• Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Charles-Marie Bonaparte
• John Hoppner – Sleeping Venus and Cupid
• Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of Napoleon
• Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
  • La Belle Zélie
  • Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière
  • Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne
• Thomas Lawrence – Lady Georgiana Fane (approximate date)
• Henry Raeburn – Lord Newton (approximate date)
• Philipp Otto Runge – The Hülsenbeck Children
• Benjamin West – The Death of Nelson
• David Wilkie
  • The Blind Fiddler
  • King Alfred burning the cakes

Births

• January 10 – Louis Joseph César Ducornet, French painter (used his feet) (died 1856)
• January 13 – Eugen Napoleon Neureuther, German painter and illustrator (died 1882)
• January 25 – Daniel Maclise, Irish-born painter (died 1870)
• February 1 – George Harvey, Scottish genre painter (died 1876)
• February 22 – Antoine Wiertz, Belgian painter (died 1865)
• April 12 – Peter Rindisbacher, Swiss-born anthropological painter (died 1834)
• May 2 – Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, Swiss painter (born 1874)
• June 4 – Daniel Macnee, Scottish portrait painter (died 1882)
• July 28 – Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, Russian painter who adhered to Neoclassicism (died 1858)
• September 19 – William Dyce, Scottish-born painter (died 1864)
• September 24 – Niels Christian Kierkegaard, Danish draftsman and lithographer (died 1882)
• October 10 or 12 – David Scott, Scottish historical painter (died 1849)

Deaths

• January 6 – Jean Henri Riesener, German furniture designer (born 1734)
• February 22 – James Barry, Irish painter, one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain (born 1741)
• March 17 – Rienk Jelgerhuis, Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman (born 1729)
• April – John Russell, English portrait painter (born 1745)
• April 26 – Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (born 1723)
• June 5 – Gabriel François Doyen, French painter (born 1726)
• July 10 – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (born 1724)
• August 22 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and printmaker (born 1732)
• August 23 – Johann Eleazar Zeissig, German genre, portrait and porcelain painter, and engraver (born 1737)
• October 9 – Friedrich August Brand, Austrian painter and engraver of historical subjects and landscapes (born 1735)
• October 10 – Therese Maron, German painter active in Rome (born 1725)
• October 22 – Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (born 1751)
• October 31 – Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) (born 1753)
• date unknown
  • Abraham Ezekiel Ezekiel, English engraver (born 1757)
  • Carlo Magini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1720)
  • Henry Pelham, American painter, engraver, and cartographer (born 1748/1749) (drowned)
  • Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (born 1741)
• probable – Danwon, Korean painter of the late Joseon period (born 1745)