1796 in art

• Printing by lithography is invented by Alois Senefelder in Bohemia. • Ann Jemima Provis and her father Thomas Provis perpetrate the Venetian secret scandal where they falsely claim to have found a document describing Renaissance-era painting methods. A number of prominent artists are fooled, most notably Benjamin West. ==Works==

'' of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart '' by Thomas Lawrence. • Henry Fuseli – The Night-Hag visiting the Lapland Witches • Anton Graff – George Leopold Gogel • Antoine-Jean Gros • ''Bonaparte at the Pont d'Arcole'' • Portrait of the Maistre Sisters • Hugh Douglas Hamilton – Lord Edward Fitzgerald • John Hoppner – Portrait of William Lamb • Thomas Lawrence • Portrait of the Duke of Leeds • Portrait of Lord Hawkesbury • The Children of John Julius Angerstein • Philip James de Loutherbourg – Defeat of the Spanish Armada • Henry Raeburn – Rev. Alexander Carlyle • Edward Savage – The Washington Family • Gilbert Stuart – Lansdowne portrait of George Washington • J. M. W. Turner – Fishermen at Sea (his first oil painting to be exhibited at the Royal Academy) • Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun - Portrait of Countess Yekaterina von Engelhardt ==Births==

• February 3 – Jean-Baptiste Madou, Belgian painter and lithographer (died 1877) • February 5 – Pieter Godfried Bertichen, Dutch painter and lithographer (died 1856) • May 24 – Étienne-Jules Ramey, French sculptor and teacher (died 1852) • May 28 – William Miller, Scottish Quaker line engraver (died 1882) • June 27 (bapt.) – George Vincent, English landscape painter of the Norwich School (died c. 1832) • June 30 – Antonin Moine, French romantic sculptor (died 1849) • July 2 – Michael Thonet, German-born furniture designer (died 1871) • July 3 – Maria Martin, American watercolor painter (died 1863) • July 17 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter (died 1875) • July 26 – George Catlin, American painter specializing in portraits of Native Americans in the Old West (died 1872) • August 21 – Asher Brown Durand, American painter of the Hudson River School (died 1886) • August 30 – Julien-Léopold Boilly, French draughtsman and watercolorist (died 1874) • September 4 – Peter Fendi, Austrian portrait and genre painter, engraver and lithographer (died 1842) • September 5 – Jacobus Cornelis Gaal, Dutch painter and etcher (died 1866) • September 24 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (died 1875) • October 9 – Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator (died 1878) • October 19 – Carl Wagner, German romantic landscape painter (died 1867) • October 24 – David Roberts, Scottish painter (died 1864) • October 30 – Wilhelm August Rieder, Austrian painter and draughtsman (died 1880) • November 4 – John Neagle, American portrait painter (died 1865) • date unknown • Gilles-François Closson, Belgian landscape painter (died 1842) • Joseph Farey, English mechanical engineer and draughtsman (died 1829) • Giovanni Paolo Lasinio, Italian engraver (died 1855) • Achille Etna Michallon, French landscape painter (died 1822) • Marcin Zaleski, Polish painter (died 1877) • Charles C. Ingham, Irish portrait painter and later founder of the New York National Academy of Design (died 1863) • probable – John Ternouth, English sculptor (died 1848) ==Deaths==

• March 9 – Saverio Gandini, Italian painter (born 1729) • March 29 – Johan Philip Korn, Swedish painter (born 1728) • April 2 – Ulrika Pasch, Swedish miniaturist painter (born 1735) • August 6 – David Allan, Scottish painter of historical subjects (born 1744) • August 8 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (born 1724) • September 3 – Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau, French painter and winner of the Grand prix de Rome (born 1733) • November 2 – Domenico Pozzi, Swiss painter (born 1745) • November 12 – Margareta Christina Giers, Swedish painter (born 1731) • December 29 – Miguel Verdiguier, French sculptor (born 1706) • date unknown • Walter Beekerk, Dutch painter (born 1756) • John Frederick Miller, English illustrator (born 1759) • Hugh Robinson, British history and portrait painter (born 1756) • probable – Francesco Battaglioli, Italian painter of veduta and capriccios (born 1722) ==References==