{{Short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see WP:SDNONE --> {{Year nav topic5|1808|art}} {{refimprove|date=February 2025}} Events in the year '''1808 in Art'''.
==Events== *May 2 and May 3 – In Spain the guerrilla resistance movement against the French forces of Napoleon Bonaparte begins; immortalized in 1814 by Francisco Goya's ''Third of May 1808''. * May 2 – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1808 opens at Somerset House in London *April 5 – John James Audubon marries Lucy Bakewell.<ref>[http://hendersonkyhistory.com/JJAudubonBio.htm Henderson County, Kentucky Biography of Audubon]. Accessed 9 April 2015</ref> * October 15 – The Salon of 1808 opens at the Louvre in Paris * The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, is given the title of Royal Academy of Fine Arts by King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria.<ref>{{cite book|author=William Sandby|title=The History of the Royal Academy of Arts from Its Foundation in 1768 to the Present Time|publisher=Longman, Roberts, & Green|year=1862|page=64}}</ref> * The Rijksmuseum moves from The Hague to Amsterdam, where it is located temporarily at the Royal Palace.<ref>{{cite web|title=The beginning|url=https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/organisation/history-of-the-rijksmuseum|website=History of the Rijksmuseum|publisher=Rijksmuseum|accessdate=2 February 2018}}</ref> * Thomas Phillips is elected to the Royal Academy.
==Works== [[File:Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord by François Gérard, 1808.jpg|thumb|''Portrait of Talleyrand'' by François Gérard]] *René Théodore Berthon – ''Napoleon Receiving the Senate Deputies in Berlin''<ref>https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE004994</ref> * Louis-Léopold Boilly – ''Departure of the Conscripts'' * Antonio Canova – ''Venus Victrix'' (marble reclining nude)<ref>{{cite book|title=Roman Presences: Receptions of Rome in European Culture, 1789-1945|editor=Catharine Edwards|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1999|isbn=9780521591973|page=60}}</ref> * Richard Cosway – Portrait miniature of Arthur Wellesley * François-Xavier Fabre – ''The Judgement of Paris'' * François Gérard ** ''Portrait of Joseph Bonaparte'' ** ''Portrait of Talleyrand'' * James Gillray – ''The Spanish Bullfight'' * Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson ** ''The Burial of Atala''<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wakefield |first=David |date=1978 |title=Chateaubriand's 'Atala' as a Source of Inspiration in Nineteenth-Century Art |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/879073 |journal=The Burlington Magazine |volume=120 |issue=898 |pages=13–24 |jstor=879073 |issn=0007-6287}}</ref> ** ''Napoleon Receiving the Keys of Vienna''<ref>{{cite book|author=Cumming, Robert|title=Art|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|year=2008|page=264}}</ref> ** ''François-René de Chateaubriand'' ** ''Hortense de Beauharnais'' * Antoine-Jean Gros ** ''General Lasalle at the Siege of Stettin''<ref>''Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760-1830''. Harry N. Abrams, 2007. p.333</ref> ** ''Napoléon on the Battlefield of Eylau'' * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres ** ''The Valpinçon Bather''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mini-site.louvre.fr/ingres/1.4.2.1_en.html|title=1806–1824 - Rome and Florence|website=Louvre|access-date=4 February 2025}}</ref> ** ''Oedipus and the Sphinx'' * Thomas Lawrence – ''Portrait of the Children of Ayscoghe Boucherett'' * Thomas Phillips – ''Venus and Adonis'' * Adolphe Roehn – ''The Meeting of Napoleon I and Tsar Alexander I at Tilsit''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Michel Franceschi|author2=Ben Weider|title=Wars Against Napoleon: Debunking the Myth of the Napoleonic Wars|publisher=Savas Beatie|year=2008|page=132}}</ref> * J. M. W. Turner ** ''The Battle of Trafalgar''<ref>https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-battle-of-trafalgar-as-seen-from-the-mizen-starboard-shrouds-of-the-victory-n00480</ref> ** ''Margate'' ** ''Pope's Villa at Twickenham''<ref>Hunt, John Dixon. ''Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture''. MIT Press, 1992. p.225</ref> ** ''The Forest of Bere''<ref>https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-the-forest-of-bere-t03875</ref> ** ''Sheerness as Seen from the Nore''<ref>https://emuseum.mfah.org/objects/69601/sheerness-as-seen-from-the-nore</ref> ** ''The Unpaid Bill''<ref>https://chronicle250.com/1808</ref> ** ''View of Richmond Hill and Bridge''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-view-of-richmond-hill-and-bridge-n00557|title=View of Richmond Hill and Bridge|website=Tate|access-date=4 February 2025}}</ref>
==Publications== *Johann Dominicus Fiorillo – {{Lang|de|Geschichte der zeichnenden Künste}}. *Robert Blair – ''The Grave'', with illustrations from designs by William Blake (including ''A Vision of the Last Judgment''). *Augustus Charles Pugin & Thomas Rowlandson – Volume 1 of ''The Microcosm of London'', illustrated in aquatint from watercolours produced jointly by Pugin & Rowlandson and published by Rudolph Ackermann in London. [[File:Interior of a prison.jpg|thumb|Goya – ''Prison Interior''. 42.9 cm x 31.7 cm, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle]]
==Births== *February 5 – Carl Spitzweg, German Biedermeier painter (died 1885) *February 26 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and illustrator (died 1879)<ref>{{EB1911|wstitle=Daumier, Honoré|volume=7|page=849}}</ref> *March 6 – Sofia Adlersparre, Swedish painter (died 1862) *July 12 – Edward Troye, Swiss-born American equine painter (died 1874) *December 14 – Édouard De Bièfve, Belgian painter (died 1882) * Date unknown – Nikola Aleksić, Serbian portraitist in the Biedermeier artistic tradition and the Nazarene movement of 19th century German painters (died 1873)
==Deaths== *February 10 – Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Irish portrait artist (born 1740) *March 1 – Fredrika Eleonora von Düben, Swedish textile artist, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (born 1738)<ref>{{cite web|url= https://runeberg.org/sqvinnor/0142.html|title= Düben, Fredrika Eleonora von |year= 1864 |publisher= Anteckningar om svenska qvinnor |access-date=1 March 2019}}</ref> *March 3 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (born 1733) *April 10 – Jean-Laurent Mosnier, French painter and miniaturist (born 1743) *April 15 – Hubert Robert, French painter (born 1733) *April 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pillement, French Rococo painter, designer and engraver (born 1728) *June 1 – Jacques Kuyper, Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer (born 1761) *June 6 – Magdalene Bärens, Danish still life and flower painter (born 1737)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kvindebiografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Magdalene_Margrethe_B%c3%a4rens|title=Magdalene Margrethe Bärens|author=Dyveke Helsted|website=Kvindebiografisk Leksikon|access-date=13 February 2025}}</ref> *December 4 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, German art critic (born 1763) *December 18 – Christina Chalon, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1748)<ref>{{cite web|title=Chalon, Christina (1749-1808)|url=http://www.biografischportaal.nl/persoon/19563494|website=Het Biografisch Portaal|access-date=4 February 2025}}</ref> *December 22 – Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (born 1750)<ref>{{DNB Cite|wstitle=Shelley, Samuel|volume=52}}</ref>
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