Events from the year 1788 in art.
- February 5 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (died 1853)
- February 24 – Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter (died 1857)
- February 29 – Catharine Hermine Kølle, Norwegian adventurer and painter (died 1859)
- March 12 – Pierre Jean David, sculptor and engraver ("David d'Angers") (died 1856)
- April 5 – Franz Pforr, painter (died 1812)
- April 18 – Charles de Steuben, French painter active during the Napoleonic Era (died 1856)
- April 20 – Emma Körner, German painter (died 1815)
- April 24 – Ammi Phillips, American painter (died 1865)
- June 18 - Ernesta Legnani Bisi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1859)
- September 8 – William Collins, English landscape and genre painter (died 1847)
- August 6 – Felix Slade, founder of the Slade School of Art (died 1868)
- November 4 – Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux, French sculptor and medal engraver (died 1881)
- November 28 – Kikuchi Yōsai – Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome portraits of historical figures (died 1878)
- date unknown
- Michele Bisi, Italian engraver and painter (date of death unknown)
- Albertus Jonas Brandt, Dutch still-life painter (died 1821)
- Martin Cregan, Irish portrait painter (died 1870)
- John Watson Gordon, painter (died 1864)
- Michael Hanhart, British lithographer and chromolithographer (died 1865)
- Mary Harrison, English flower and fruit painter, and illustrator (died 1875)
- Emma Eleonora Kendrick, British miniature painter (died 1871)
- Paolo Toschi, Italian draughtsman and engraver (died 1854)
- William Edward West, American portrait painter (died 1859)
- February 13 – Josef Jáchym Redelmayer, Czech painter, fresco painter and theater decorator (born 1727)
- February 17 – Maurice Quentin de La Tour, French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels (born 1704)
- March 2 – Solomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (born 1730)
- May 29 – Jacques Aliamet, French engraver (born 1726)
- July 15 – Jean Germain Drouais, French historical painter (born 1763)
- August 2 – Thomas Gainsborough, English portrait painter (born 1727)
- September 27 – Sir Robert Taylor, stonemason, sculptor, and architect (born 1714)
- September 30 – Matthäus Günther, German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era (born 1705)
- December 30 – Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian Rococo painter, elected in 1763 to the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts (born 1702)
- date unknown
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