1801 in art

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Events in the year 1801 in Art.

Events

Marie-Denise Villers, Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes, 1801, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

January 4 – James Giles, Scottish landscape painter (died 1870)
January 26 – John Quidor, American painter (died 1881)
February 1 – Thomas Cole, American painter (died 1848)
April 14 – Fedor Solntsev, Russian painter and art historian (died 1892)
April 30 – André Giroux, French painter and photographer (died 1879)
July 26 – Maria Röhl, Swedish painter (died 1875)
September 4 – Alfred d'Orsay, French painter, sculptor and patron of the arts (died 1852)
date unknown
- Dai Xi, Chinese painter of the 19th century and representative of the academic manner (died 1860)
- Fei Danxu, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (died 1850)
- Robert Richard Scanlan, Irish painter and portraitist (died 1876)
- Alexey Tyranov, Russian painter (died 1859)
probable (born 1801/1804) – Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (died 1866)

January 30 - Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian sculptor (born 1751)
February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-born painter (born 1726)^[1]
March 3 – Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver (born 1746)
April 7 – Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1724)
May 29 – Jan Bulthuis, Dutch draftsman and painter (born 1750)
June 28
- Martin Johann Schmidt, Austrian Rococo painter (born 1718)
- Francis Wheatley, English portrait and landscape painter (born 1747)
June 30 – Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian-born portrait sculpture and republican, guillotined in France (born 1751)
August 16 – Ralph Earl, American historical and portrait painter (born 1751)
September 6 - William Tyler, English sculptor and architect, co-founder of the Royal Academy of Arts (born 1728)
October 11 – John Donaldson, Scottish-born miniature painter in enamel and watercolour (born 1737)
November 14 – Sigmund Freudenberger, Swiss painter (born 1745)
December 2 – William Hamilton, English historical and decorative painter (born 1751)
date unknown
- Filippo Pennino, Italian sculptor (born 1755)

^ Sieveking, Hinrich (1998). Fuseli to Menzel : drawings and watercolors in the age of Goethe from a German private collection. Munich New York: Prestel. p. 204. ISBN 9783791319292.