Events from the year1783 in art.

• Thomas Gainsborough removes a set of 15 portraits of KingGeorge III of Great Britain and the royal family from theRoyal Academy summer exhibition in London and places them atSchomberg House, his home.^[1]

• Marie-Gabrielle Capet –Self-portrait
• John Singleton Copley
  • The Death of Major Peirson, 6 January 1781
  • The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782
  • Portrait of Lord Mansfield
• Thomas Gainsborough
  • Portrait of Admiral Rodney
  • Portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire
  • Portrait of Lord Cornwallis
  • Portrait of the Earl of Sandwich
  • The Mall in St. James's Park
• Thomas Jones –A Storm – Prospero, Miranda and Caliban Spying the Shipwrecked Ferdinand
• Joseph Lange – Unfinishedportrait ofWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, his brother-in-law
• Jean-Baptiste Le Paon -Lafayette at Yorktown'
• SirJoshua Reynolds
  • Admiral Hood
  • The Nativity (West window of chapel,New College, Oxford, England, design afterCorreggio, painted by Thomas Jervais)
• Alexander Roslin –The artist Anne Vallayer-Coster
• Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes –At the Villa Farnèse – Two Poplars
• Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
  • Portrait ofMarie Antoinette (the "muslin" portrait)
  • Marie Antoinette with a Rose
• Thomas Whitcombe –The Battle of the Saintes, 12th April 1782: surrender of theVille de Paris

• January 2 –Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter (died1853)
• January 4 –Aleksander Lauréus, Finnish painter (died1823)
• February 10 –Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist (died1873)
• March 25 –Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin, French painter (died1855)
• April 5 –Andrew Geddes, British painter (died1844)
• April 29 –David Cox, English landscape painter (died1859)
• May 29 –Benedetto Pistrucci, Italian-born British engraver (died1855)
• June 19 –Thomas Sully, English-born American portrait painter (died1872)
• September 17 –Samuel Prout, English water-colour painter (died1852)^[2]
• October 4 –Jens Peter Møller, Danish painter (died1854)
• December 14 –Alexandre-François Caminade,Frenchportraitist and areligionpainter (died1862)
• December 18 –Johan Niclas Byström, Swedish sculptor (died1844)
• date unknown
  • Maria Johanna Görtz,Swedishstill lifeartist (died1853)
  • Alexander Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (died1844)
  • Yi Jaegwan,Koreangenre works painter in the lateJoseon period (died1837)

• January 24 –George Michael Moser, Swiss-born enameller (born1706)^[3]
• March 26 -Anna Rosina de Gasc, German portrait painter (born1713)
• April 12 –Johann Melchior Kambly,Swisssculptor who took part in the development of the architectural style ofFrederician Rococo (born1718)
• April 14 –Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French engraver (born1707)^[4]
• May 26 –Anna Maria Hilfeling,Swedish portraitminiaturist artist (born1713)
• July 8 –Johann Jakob Zeiller,Austrian fresco painter (born1708)
• August 4 –Johannes Rach, Danish painter and draughtsman (born1720)
• August 19 –Franz Xaver Messerschmidt,Germansculptor most famous for his collection of busts of faces contorted in extremefacial expressions (born1736)
• August 29 –William Wynne Ryland, English engraver (born1738)
• November 19 –Jean-Baptiste Perronneau, French painter who specialized in portraits executed inpastels (born1715)
• date unknown
  • Matthijs Accama, Dutch historical and emblematical subjects painter (born1702)
  • Benjamin Calau, German portrait painter who used anencaustic technique (died1724)
  • Jean-Baptiste Defernex, French sculptor especially ofportrait busts (born1729)
  • Violante Beatrice Siries, Italian painter (born1709)

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