Editing 1787 in art

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Events from the year '''1787 in art'''.

==Events==
* [[25 August]] – The [[Salon of 1787]] opens at the [[Louvre]] in [[Paris]]
* Seventeen-year-old [[Thomas Lawrence]] arrives in London and takes lodgings near Sir [[Joshua Reynolds]].

==Works==
[[File:Portrait of Mrs Dorothy Jordan (1761–1816) as Rosalind in Shakespeare's ‘As You Like It’).jpg|thumb|''[[Dorothea Jordan as Rosalind]]'' by [[William Beechey]]]]
[[Image:David - The Death of Socrates.jpg|right|thumb|300px|[[Jacques-Louis David]] – ''[[The Death of Socrates]]'' ([[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City|New York]])]]
* [[William Beechey]] – ''[[Dorothea Jordan as Rosalind]]''
* [[Antonio Canova]] – ''[[Tomb of Pope Clement XIV]]''
* [[Jacques-Louis David]] – ''[[The Death of Socrates]]'' (completed)
* [[Thomas Gainsborough]]
** ''[[:File:Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish.jpg|Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire]]''
** ''[[Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (painting)|Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan]]''
* [[Francisco Goya]]
** ''Highwaymen Attacking a Coach''
** ''[http://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-snowstorm-winter-1787 The Snowstorm (Winter)]''
** ''[http://www.wikiart.org/en/francisco-goya/the-swing-1787 The Swing]''
* [[Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun]] – ''[[:File:Lebr04.jpg|Marie Antoinette and her Children]]'' (completed)
* [[Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine]] – ''[[:File:Lemoine Portrait dame fils fille balcon fenêtre.jpg|Portrait of a Woman with Her Son and Daughter in a Balcony Window]]''
* [[Philip James de Loutherbourg]] – ''[[Snowdon from Capel Curig]]''
* [[George Romney (painter)|George Romney]] – ''[http://collection.waddesdon.org.uk/search.do?id=39291&db=object&page=1&view=detail Mrs Jordan as Peggy]''
* [[Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein]] – ''[[:File:Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein 007.jpg|Goethe in the Campagna]]''
* [[Benjamin West]] – ''[[The Institution of the Order of the Garter]]''

==Awards==
* (unknown)

==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]])

==Deaths==
* [[February 4]] – [[Pompeo Batoni]], [[Italy|Italian]] painter (born [[1708 in art|1708]])
* [[March 17]] – [[Anton August Beck]], German engraver (born [[1713 in art|1713]])
* [[June 23]] – [[Pierre L'Enfant (painter)|Pierre L'Enfant]], [[France|French]] painter (born [[1704 in art|1704]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Arthur Devis (1712–1787)|Arthur Devis]] – English [[portrait]] painter, particularly known for his [[Conversation piece (paintings)|conversation pieces]] and other such small portraits (born [[1712 in art|1712]])
* [[September 5]] – [[John Brown (artist)|John Brown]], Scottish portrait-draftsman and painter at Edinburgh (born [[1749 in art|1749]])
* [[November 10]] – [[Cristoforo Dall'Acqua]], Italian painter and engraver (born [[1734 in art|1734]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Jean Valade]], French painter (born [[1710 in art|1710]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Mason Chamberlin]], English portrait painter (born [[1727 in art|1727]])
** [[John Cheere]], English sculptor (born [[1709 in art|1709]])
** [[Nicolas Desportes]], French painter of hunting scenes (born [[1718 in art|1718]])
** [[Erik Westzynthius the Younger]], Finnish painter (born [[1743 in art|1743]])
** [[Francesco Zugno]], Italian Rococo painter (born c. 1708)
* ''probable'' - [[Thomas Engleheart]], English sculptor and modeller in wax (date of birth unknown)

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