1797 in art

Events from the year 1797 in art.

Events

Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans established in France.

Works

Caspar David Friedrich – Landscape with Temple in Ruins
François Gérard – Belisarius
Francisco Goya – Bernardo de Iriarte
Anton Graff – Elisa von der Recke
Henry Howard – Anne Flaxman (approximate date)
Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Sir Edward Pellew
Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Great Fire of London
Henry Tresham – The Earl of Warwick's Vow Previous to The Battle of Towton

Births

January 19 – Cornelia Aletta van Hulst, Dutch painter (died 1870)
April 5 – Johann Fischbach, Austrian painter of landscapes and genre art (died 1871)
May 29 – Louise-Adéone Drölling, French painter and draughtswoman (died 1836)
June 13 – Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, French engraver (died 1892)
July 12 – Adele Schopenhauer, German papercut artist and novelist (died 1849)
June 16 – Sophie Fremiet, French painter (died 1867)
July 17 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (died 1856)
August 8 – Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter (died 1890)
August 20 – Johan Frederik Møller, Danish painter and photographer (died 1871)
September 5 – John Blennerhassett Martin, American painter, engraver and lithographer (died 1857)
September 13 – Joseph Stannard, English painter of the Norwich school (died 1830)
September 19 – Jan Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer (died 1875)
September 25 – Cornelis Kruseman, Dutch painter (died 1857)
October 9 – Henry Collen, English Royal miniature portrait painter (died 1879)
October 29 – Friedrich Loos, Austrian Biedermeier style painter, etcher and lithographer (died 1890)
date unknown
- Tivadar Alconiere, Hungarian painter (died 1865)
- Tommaso Benedetti, English-born Austrian painter (died 1863)
- Louis-Henri Brévière, French wood-engraver (died 1869)
- Joseph-Désiré Court, French painter of historical subjects and portraits (died 1865)
- Hiroshige, Japanese ukiyo-e artist (died 1858)
- Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design (died 1863)
- Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne, French painter and lithographer (died 1860)
- Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter (muralist) (died 1880)
probable
- John O'Keeffe, Irish portrait and figure painter (died 1838)
- Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Japanese artist of the ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting and belonged to the Utagawa school (died 1861)

Deaths

February 12 – Pierre-François Basan, French engraver (born 1723)
March 6 – William Hodges, English landscape painter (born 1744)
March 30 – Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter (born 1723)
April 4– Pierre-François Berruer, French sculptor (born 1733)
June 23 – Antonio Diziani, Italian painter of veduta, landscapes and vistas (born 1737)
July 18 – Jean-Bernard Restout, French painter (born 1732)
August 18 – Josiah Spode, English potter (born 1733)
August 29 – Joseph Wright of Derby, English painter (born 1734)
September 29 - George Raper, English nature artist (born 1769)
December 14 – John Robert Cozens, English draftsman and painter of romantic watercolor landscapes (born 1752)
date unknown
- Manuel Francisco Álvarez de la Peña, Spanish sculptor (born 1727)
- Christina Elisabeth Carowsky, Swedish portrait painter (born 1745)
- Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver (born 1721)
- Emanuel Granberg, Finnish painter (born 1754)
- Thomas Kirk, English painter, illustrator and engraver (born 1765)