1803 in art

Awards

The Prix de Rome is expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category.

• Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
• Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
• Grand Prix de Rome, music: Albert Androt.

Births

• January 18 – Francis Grant, painter (died 1878)
• March 3 – Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, painter (died 1860)
• May 19 – Martinus Rørbye, Danish genre painter (died 1848)
• June 13 – Treffle Berthlaume, sculptor (died 1884)
• July 24 – Alexander Jackson Davis, architect, illustrator (died 1892)
• August 23 – Egide Charles Gustave Wappers, painter (died 1874)
• September 13 – Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard ("J J Grandville"), caricaturist (died 1847)
• September 28 – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter and etcher (died 1884)
• October 3 – Paul Huet, painter (died 1869)
• November 25 – Sofia Ahlbom, Swedish drawing artist, engraver and lithographer (died 1868)

Deaths

• January 8 – Domenico Cunego, Italian printmaker (born 1725)
• January 22 – Giuseppe Baldrighi, Italian painter (born 1722)
• April 21 – John Bogle, Scottish miniature painter (born 1746)
• April 24 – Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, historical and portrait painter (born 1749)
• April 29 – Thomas Jones, Welsh artist of water colours and sketches (born 1742)
• June 14 – José Camarón Bonanat, Spanish painter, mainly active in Valencia (born 1731)
• July 8 – Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, Italian painter and a younger brother of Giacomo Casanova (born 1727)
• November 25 – Joseph Wilton, sculptor (born 1722)
• December 6 – William Verstille, American portrait artist (born 1757)
• date unknown
• Giuseppe Camerata, Italian miniature painter and engraver (born 1718)
• Luigi Mayer, Italian-German painter (born 1755)
• Vasily Rodchev, Russian history painter (born 1768)
• Giovanni Volpato, Italian engraver, excavator, dealer in antiquities and manufacturer of biscuit porcelain figurines (born 1735)
• Xi Gang, Chinese calligrapher and painter of the Qing dynasty (born 1746)

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