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Events relating to painting
Catherine the Great founds the Hermitage as a court museum attached to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg
The Royal Academy is established in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first president
Thomas Gainsborough moves from Bath to set up a studio in London
John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London
In Brook Watson and the Shark John Singleton Copley creates the most intensely dramatic of his modern history paintings
15-year-old Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun earns enough from painting portraits to support the rest of her family
Jacques-Louis David, establishing a reputation with his severe classical paintings, is elected to the French academy
Francisco de Goya is appointed painter to the king of Spain, Charles III
The painter Jacques-Louis David sketches the events in the Versailles tennis court
Francisco de Goya is appointed court painter to the new Spanish king, Charles IV
English painter J.M.W. Turner is only 15 when a painting of his, a watercolour, is first exhibited at the Royal Academy
Scottish painter Henry Raeburn depicts the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch
After four years in Copenhagen, German artist Caspar David Friedrich makes his life-long home in Dresden
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor
French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years
An uprising in Madrid, brutally put down by the French, is vividly depicted by the Spanish painter Goya
Baroness Howe demolishes Pope's Villa, earning herself the sobriquet Queen of the Goths, and builds a new house next door. The demolition is recorded by J M W Turner in his painting 'Pope's Villa at Twickenham'.
Jacques-Louis David, unmistakably identified as Napoleon's painter, is banished from France after the fall of the emperor and moves to Brussels
British officers, hoping to shoot a tiger, come across the forgotten Buddhist caves of Ajanta
J.M.W. Turner makes the first of several visits to Venice, and discovers a rich seam of inspiration
French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain
English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work
With Kaaterskill Falls 26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting
English artist Samuel Palmer moves to Shoreham, in Kent, for the most inspired years of his career
French painter Eugène Delacroix begins a five-month visit to north Africa, with profound effects on his future art
