1778 in art
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Events from the year 1778 in art.
Events
[edit]- December – The artistic cargo of the British ship Westmorland, seized by the French, is acquired by Spanish interests.[1]
- Nicholas Pocock gives up his career as a seaman and devotes himself to painting.
Paintings
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- John Singleton Copley – Watson and the Shark
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Francisco Goya – Children With a Cart
- Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait busts of Rousseau and Voltaire
- Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Portrait of Joseph Vernet[2]
- David Martin – Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray[3]
- John Hamilton Mortimer – Sir Arthegal, the Knight of Justice, with Talus, the Iron Man (from Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’)
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Jane, Countess of Harrington
- Lady Caroline Howard[4]
- Captain John Hayes St Leger
- 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
- Benjamin West
- Johann Zoffany – Tribuna of the Uffizi (completed)
Births
[edit]- January 1 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (died 1846)
- February 22
- Franz Ludwig Catel, German artist (died 1856)[5]
- Rembrandt Peale, American artist (died 1860)[6]
- May 31 – John Jackson, English portrait painter (died 1831)[7]
- June 7 – Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (died 1840)
- June 10
- Cornelis Cels, Belgian painter of portraits and historical subjects (died 1859)[8]
- Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (died 1860)[9]
- 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)[10]
- 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)[11]
- October 5 – John James Masquerier, British portrait artist (died 1855)
- date unknown
- Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (died 1827)[12]
- 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
[edit]- 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)[13]
- October 2 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (born 1726)
- November 9 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (born 1720)[14]
- 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)[15]
- Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (born 1703)[16]
- Wojciech Rojowski, Polish sculptor and woodcarver (born unknown)
- Pieter Vanderlyn, American colonial painter (born 1687)[17]
References
[edit]- ^ Griñán, F (September 2024). "Treasures from British ship return to Malaga after more than 200 years". Retrieved 24 December 2024.
- ^ Gita May (2008). Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 87. ISBN 9780300130003.
- ^ Jeffries, Stuart (2014-05-27). "Dido Belle: the artworld enigma who inspired a movie". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
- ^ "Lady Caroline Howard". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
- ^ John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. C. Scribner's sons. p. 254.
- ^ Carol Eaton Hevner; Rembrandt Peale (1985). Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860, a Life in the Arts: An Exhibition at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1985 to June 28, 1985. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-910732-19-2.
- ^ Allan Cunningham (1880). The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters. George Bell. p. 107.
- ^ John Denison Champlin (1927). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Empire State Book Company. p. 262.
- ^ Wacha: "Mähler, Joseph Willibrord". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 5, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1972, p. 404. (in German)
- ^ Claus Michael Kauffmann; John Varley (1984). John Varley, 1778-1842. B.T. Batsford. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7134-3402-6.
- ^ Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1887). The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical. Seeley. p. 70.
- ^ Samuel Redgrave (1874). A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 51.
- ^ Adolf K. Placzek; Angela Giral (1997). Avery's Choice: Five Centuries of Great Architectural Books : One Hundred Years of an Architectural Library, 1890-1990. G.K. Hall. p. 80.
- ^ Benjamin Burges Moore (1962). Giovanni Battista Piranesi. p. 26.
- ^ The Illustrated London News. William Little. 1959. p. 19.
- ^ Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1891). DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 157.
- ^ Antiques. Straight Enterprises. 1959. p. 546.