1778 in art

none 1778 art February 2025 Events from the year 1778 in art. Events 24 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1778 opens at Pall Mall in London December – The artistic cargo of the British ship Westmorland, seized by the French, is acquired by Spanish interests.Griñán F September 2024 Treasures from British ship return to Malaga after more than 200 years https://www.surinenglish.com/lifestyle/treasures-from-british-ship-return-malaga-after-20240913120017-nt.html 24 December 2024 Nicholas Pocock gives up his career as a seaman and devotes himself to painting. Paintings thumb|John Singleton Copley – Watson and the Shark thumb|Richard Samuel – Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo. thumb|Benjamin West – The Battle of La Hogue. John Singleton Copley – Watson and the Shark Thomas Gainsborough Portrait of Philip James de Loutherbourg Portrait of James Christie Francisco Goya – Children With a Cart William Hodges – Ludlow Castle, Shropshire Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait busts of Rousseau and Voltaire Angelica Kauffman – Zeuxis Selecting Models for His Painting of Helen of TroyMoyle, Franny. Mrs Kauffman and Madame Le Brun: The Entwined Lives of Two Great Eighteenth-Century Women Artists. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. p.210-11 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Portrait of Joseph VernetGita May Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution Yale University Press 2008 9780300130003 87 David Martin – Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth MurrayJeffries Stuart 2014-05-27 Dido Belle: the artworld enigma who inspired a movie https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/may/27/dido-belle-enigmatic-painting-that-inspired-a-movie 13 December 2024 The Guardian en-GB 0261-3077 John Hamilton Mortimer – Sir Arthegal, the Knight of Justice, with Talus, the Iron Man (from Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’) James Northcote – Portrait of Henry Fuselihttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/henry-fuseli-157369 Joshua Reynolds Jane, Countess of Harrington Lady Caroline Howardhttps://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.113.html Lady Caroline Howard National Gallery of Art 13 February 2025 Captain John Hayes St Leger The Marlborough Family Portrait of Mary Moncktonhttps://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/reynolds-the-hon-miss-monckton-n04694 George Romney – Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon, and Her Son, George Gordon Richard Samuel – Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo Gilbert Stuart – Self-portrait Henry Walton – A Girl Buying a Ballad Benjamin West The Battle of the Boyne The Battle of La Hogue Johann Zoffany – Tribuna of the Uffizi (completed) Births January 1 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (died 1846) February 22 Franz Ludwig Catel, German artist (died 1856)John Denison Champlin Charles Callahan Perkins Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings https://books.google.com/books?id=UdJHAQAAIAAJ 1913 C. Scribner's sons 254 Rembrandt Peale, American artist (died 1860)Carol Eaton Hevner Rembrandt Peale Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860, a Life in the Arts: An Exhibition at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1985 to June 28, 1985 https://books.google.com/books?id=4RRIAQAAIAAJ 1985 Historical Society of Pennsylvania 978-0-910732-19-2 12 May 31 – John Jackson, English portrait painter (died 1831)Allan Cunningham The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters https://books.google.com/books?id=jLYaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA107 1880 George Bell 107 June 7 – Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (died 1840) June 10 Cornelis Cels, Belgian painter of portraits and historical subjects (died 1859)John Denison Champlin Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings https://books.google.com/books?id=WvROAQAAMAAJ 1927 Empire State Book Company 262 Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (died 1860)5 404 404 Mähler, Joseph Willibrord Wacha de June 15 – Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, Franco-English painter (died 1865) August 4 – Christian Duttenhofer, German engraver (died 1843) August 11 – John Christian Schetky, Scottish-born marine painter (died 1874) August 17 Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, Dutch painter (died 1851) John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (died 1842)Claus Michael Kauffmann John Varley John Varley, 1778-1842 https://books.google.com/books?id=TOWOAAAAIAAJ 1984 B.T. Batsford 978-0-7134-3402-6 11 Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, Dutch painter and draughtsman (died 1851) August 31 – Friedrich August von Klinkowström, German artist, author and teacher (died 1835) September 1 – Reverend John Thomson, minister of Duddingston Kirk and Landscape artist (died 1840)Philip Gilbert Hamerton The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical https://books.google.com/books?id=6C0cAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA70 1887 Seeley 70 October 5 – John James Masquerier, British portrait artist (died 1855) date unknown Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (died 1827)Samuel Redgrave A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists https://books.google.com/books?id=Vb1fAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA51 1874 Longmans, Green and Company 51 Wilhelmina Krafft, Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist (died 1828) Nukina Kaioku, Japanese painter and calligrapher (died 1863) Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (died 1853) Deaths January 4 - Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, French painter and draftsman (born 1720) February 19 – Nathan Drake, English painter (born c.1728) February 24 – Laurent Delvaux, French sculptor (born 1696) March – Thomas Roberts, Irish landscape painter (born 1748) March 6 – Gaudenzio Botti, Italian painter, mainly active in Brescia (born 1698) May 20 – Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (born 1700) May 25 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor (born 1704) September 11 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German painter and grandson of the composer (born 1748) September 28 – Jean Girardet, French painter of portrait miniatures (born 1709)Adolf K. Placzek Angela Giral Avery's Choice: Five Centuries of Great Architectural Books : One Hundred Years of an Architectural Library, 1890-1990 https://books.google.com/books?id=aR9UAAAAMAAJ 1997 G.K. Hall 80 October 2 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (born 1726) November 9 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (born 1720)Benjamin Burges Moore Giovanni Battista Piranesi https://books.google.com/books?id=vL3wuqjo5ZEC 1962 26 December 15 - Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter (born 1723) December 22 – Simon Mathurin Lantara, French landscape painter (born 1729) date unknown John Cobb, English cabinetmaker (born 1710)The Illustrated London News https://books.google.com/books?id=1aUcAQAAMAAJ 1959 William Little 19 Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (born 1703)Leslie Stephen Sir Sidney Lee DNB https://books.google.com/books?id=EWVIAAAAYAAJ 1891 Smith, Elder, & Company 157 Wojciech Rojowski, Polish sculptor and woodcarver (born unknown) Pieter Vanderlyn, American colonial painter (born 1687)Antiques https://books.google.com/books?id=Dig7AQAAIAAJ 1959 Straight Enterprises 546 References Category:Years of the 18th century in art Category:1770s in art