Editing 1787 in art (section)

==Births==
* [[January 7]] – [[Patrick Nasmyth]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]] [[Landscape art|landscape]] painter (died [[1831 in art|1831]])
* [[February 3]] – [[Karl Joseph Brodtmann]], Swiss artist, lithographer, printmaker, publisher and bookseller (died [[1862 in art|1862]])
* [[March 10]] – [[William Etty]], [[English people|English]] painter, especially of [[Depictions of nudity|nudes]] (died [[1849 in art|1849]])
* [[April 9]] – [[William Finden]], English line engraver (died [[1852 in art|1852]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Maxim Vorobiev]], Russian [[Romanticism|Romantic]] landscape painter (died [[1855 in art|1855]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Jean-Pierre Cortot]], [[French people|French]] sculptor (died [[1843 in art|1843]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Karl Wilhelm Wach]], [[Germans|German]] painter (died [[1845 in art|1845]])
* [[September 18]] – [[Johann David Passavant]], German painter, [[curator]] and [[artist]] (died [[1861 in art|1861]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Nicolas Gosse]], French historical painter (died [[1878 in art|1878]])
* [[October 13]] – [[William Brockedon]], English painter (died [[1854 in art|1854]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Louis Daguerre]], French artist and chemist, recognized for his invention of the [[daguerreotype]] process of [[photography]] (died [[1851 in art|1851]])
* [[November 22]] – [[Copley Fielding]], English watercolour landscape painter (died [[1855 in art|1855]])
* [[December 16]] – [[François Joseph Heim]], French painter (died [[1865 in art|1865]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Heinrich Adam]], German painter (died [[1862 in art|1862]])
** [[Giuseppe Bisi]], Italian painter, mainly of landscapes (died [[1869 in art|1869]])
** [[Johannes Flintoe]], Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (died [[1870 in art|1870]])
** [[Harriet Gouldsmith]], English landscape painter and etcher (died [[1863 in art|1863]])
** [[François-Joseph Navez]], [[Belgians|Belgian]] [[neo-classicism|neo-classical]] painter (died [[1869 in art|1869]])
** [[Xavier Sigalon]], French Romantic painter (died [[1837 in art|1837]])