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Events from the year 1798 in art.
- English painter Robert Smirke begins to produce The Seven Ages of Man series for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery.[1]
- William Beechey
- Louis-Léopold Boilly – Meeting of Artists in Isabey's Studio
- François Gérard – Cupid and Psyche
- Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – Jean-Baptiste Belley
- Francisco Goya
- Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (approximate date)
- Witches' Sabbath
- Antoine-Jean Gros – Le pont d'Arcole
- Thomas Lawrence – Caroline, Princess of Wales
- John Opie – Portrait of Amelia Opie
- Thomas Whitcombe – The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797
- January 8 – John Graham Lough, English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a variety of portrait sculpture (died 1876)
- January 9 – Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (died 1880)
- February 17 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of paintings, murals and frescos (died 1865)
- March – David Hay, Scottish-born interior decorator (died 1866)
- March 12 – Elizabeth Goodridge, American painter specializing in miniatures (died 1882)
- April 26 – Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic painter (died 1863)
- June 22 – Ditlev Blunck, Danish painter (died 1854)
- July 16 – Abbondio Sangiorgio, Italian sculptor (died 1879)
- July 29 – Carl Blechen, German painter specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (died 1840)
- September 28 – Charles-Philippe Larivière, French academic painter and lithographer (died 1876)
- October 13 – Herman Wilhelm Bissen, Danish sculptor (died 1868)
- October 24 – Massimo d'Azeglio, Italian statesman, novelist and painter (died 1866)
- November 29 – Alexander Brullov, Russian painter, teacher and architect (died 1877)
- December 8 – Antoine Laurent Dantan, French academic sculptor (died 1878)
- date unknown
- John Cart Burgess, English watercolour painter of flowers and landscapes (died 1863)
- Jean Henri De Coene, Belgian painter of genre and historical subjects (died 1866)
- Konstantin Danil, Serbian painter (died 1873)
- William Egley, English miniature painter (died 1870)
- James Eights, American scientist and watercolour painter (died 1882)
- Thomas Foster, Irish portrait painter (died 1826)
- James Duffield Harding, English landscape painter (died 1863)
- Demeter Laccataris, Austro-Hungarian portrait painter of Greek origin (died 1864)
- Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and archaeologist (died 1880)
- Robert Seymour, English illustrator (suicide 1836)
- Rafael Stupin, Russian painter (died 1860s)
- Henry Bryan Ziegler, British landscape and portrait painter (died 1874)
- January 4 – Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter (born 1723)
- January 25 – Christopher Unterberger, Italian painter of the early-Neoclassical period (born 1732)
- February 9 – Antoine de Favray, French-born portrait painter (born 1706)
- May 25 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German (born 1754)
- May 27 – Franciszek Pinck, Polish sculptor and stucco artist (born 1733)
- August 28 – Charles Catton, English painter (born 1728)
- October 30 – Anton Hickel, Bohemian painter (born 1745)
- December 8 – Richard Newton, English caricaturist, of typhus (born 1777)
- date unknown
- Giuseppe Angeli, Venetian painter of the late-baroque (born 1709)
- Christopher Hewetson, Irish sculptor (born c. 1737)
- Innocenzo Spinazzi, sculptor (born 1726)
- Mikhail Shibanov, Russian painter (b. unknown)
- Vincenzio Vangelisti, Italian engraver (born 1740)
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