1798 in art

Births

January 8 – John Graham Lough, English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a variety of portrait sculpture (died 1876)
January 9 – Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (died 1880)
February 17 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of paintings, murals and frescos (died 1865)
March – David Hay, Scottish-born interior decorator (died 1866)
March 12 – Elizabeth Goodridge, American painter specializing in miniatures (died 1882)
April 26 – Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (died 1863)
June 22 – Ditlev Blunck, Danish painter (died 1854)
July 16 – Abbondio Sangiorgio, Italian sculptor (died 1879)
July 29 – Carl Blechen, German painter specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (died 1840)
September 28 – Charles-Philippe Larivière, French academic painter and lithographer (died 1876)
October 13 – Herman Wilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor (died 1868)
October 24 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (died 1866)
November 29 – Alexander Brullov, Russian painter, teacher and architect (died 1877)
December 8 – Antoine Laurent Dantan, French academic sculptor (died 1878)
date unknown
- John Cart Burgess, English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes (died 1863)
- Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects (died 1866)
- Konstantin Danil, Serbian painter (died 1873)
- William Egley, English miniature painter (died 1870)
- James Eights, American scientist and watercolour painter (died 1882)
- Thomas Foster, Irish portrait painter (died 1826)
- James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (died 1863)
- Demeter Laccataris, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin (died 1864)
- Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and archaeologist (died 1880)
- Robert Seymour, English illustrator (suicide 1836)
- Rafael Stupin, Russian painter (died 1860s)
- Henry Bryan Ziegler, British landscape and portrait painter (died 1874)

Deaths

January 4 – Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter (born 1723)
January 25 – Christopher Unterberger, Italian painter of the early-Neoclassical period (born 1732)
February 9 – Antoine de Favray, French-born portrait painter (born 1706)
May 25 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German (born 1754)
May 27 – Franciszek Pinck, Polish sculptor and stucco artist (born 1733)
August 28 – Charles Catton, English painter (born 1728)
October 30 – Anton Hickel, Bohemian painter (born 1745)
December 8 – Richard Newton, English caricaturist, of typhus (born 1777)
date unknown
- Giuseppe Angeli, Venetian painter of the late-baroque (born 1709)
- Christopher Hewetson, Irish sculptor (born c. 1737)
- Innocenzo Spinazzi, sculptor (born 1726)
- Mikhail Shibanov, Russian painter (b. unknown)
- Vincenzio Vangelisti, Italian engraver (born 1740)

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