1801 in art

• 27 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1801 opens at Somerset House in London ==Works==

, ''Portrait of Charlotte du Val d'Ognes'', 1801, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City • Fyodor Alekseyev – Red Square in Moscow • William Beechey • Portrait of John Boydell • Portrait of Horatio Nelson • Jean Broc – The Death of Hyacinthos • John Constable – Old Hall, East Bergholt • Jacques-Louis David – Napoleon Crossing the Alps (first version) • John Flaxman – Marble memorial to William Jones in chapel of University College, Oxford • François Gérard – Portrait of Empress Josephine • Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes (Apothéose des héros français morts pour la patrie pendant la guerre de la liberté) (approx. date) • Francisco Goya • Charles IV of Spain and His Family • Portrait of Manuel Godoy • Thomas Lawrence • John Philip Kemble as Hamlet • Portrait of Caroline, Princess of Wales and Princess Charlotte • Robert Lefèvre – Portrait of Pierre-Narcisse Guérin • Louis-François Lejeune – The Battle of Marengo • Philip James de Loutherbourg – Coalbrookdale by Night • Constance Mayer - Self-Portrait of the Artist with her Father • Rembrandt Peale – Rubens Peale with a Geranium • J. M. W. Turner – Dutch Boats in a Gale • Marie-Denise Villers – Young Woman Drawing • Richard Westmacott – Marble memorial to John Yorke in parish church of St. Andrew, Wimpole, England ==Births==

• 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) ==Deaths==

• January 30 - Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian sculptor (born 1751) • February 7 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish-born painter (born 1726) • 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) ==References==