1771 In Art

Events from the year 1771 in art.

Events

* Limoges porcelain manufacture established in France.

Works

* Cristóbal de Aguilar – ''Manuel de Amat y Junient as Protector of the Monastery of the Nazarene''
* Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – '' Self-portrait in spectacles'' (pastel)
* Louis-Bernard Coclers – ''Interior of a Foundry''
* John Singleton Copley
**
Daniel Crommelin Verplanck
' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
**''Ezekiel Goldthwait'' and ''Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait (Elizabeth Lewis)'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
* Jacques-Louis David – ''Minerva Fighting Mars'' (''Combat de Mars contre Minerve'')
* Anton Graff
**''Gotthold Ephraim Lessing''
**''Moses Mendelssohn''
* Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of Diderot
*John Hamilton Mortimer – Combined portrait of Dr Daniel Solander, Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, Dr John Hawkesworth and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
* Alexander Roslin – '' King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers''
* Claude Joseph Vernet –
Clair de lune
' ("moonlight")
* Francis Wheatley – ''Scene from Twelfth Night''
* Joseph Wright of Derby
**'' The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful conclusion of his operation, as was the custom of the Ancient Chymical Astrologers'' (original version)
** '' The Blacksmith's Shop'' (two versions)

Births

* March 16 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (died 1835)
* April 13 – Jakob Wilhelm Roux, German draughtsman and painter (died 1830)
* May 2 – John Henning, Scottish sculptor and medallist (died 1851)
* May 14 – Thomas Wedgwood, pioneer photographer (died 1805)
* November 6
** Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography (died 1834)
** Jovan Pačić, Serbian painter and poet (died 1849)
* November 20 – Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (died 1835)
* December 16 – Jean Broc, painter (died 1850)
* ''date unknown''
** Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, painter and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (died 1829)
** John Heaviside Clark, Scottish aquatint engraver and painter of seascapes and landscapes (died 1863)
** Samuel Elmgren, Finnish painter (died 1834)
** John Eyre, Australian painter and engraver (died 1812)
** William Armfield Hobday, English portrait painter and miniaturist (died 1831)
** Thomas Richmond, English miniature-painter (died 1837)
** Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter (died 1812)

Deaths

* March 8 – Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (born 1688)
* March 20 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (born 1707)
*April 14 – Laurent Cars, French designer and engraver (born 1699)
*May 11 – Franz Edmund Weirotter, Austrian landscape painter (born 1733)
* September 9 – Robert Wood, British engraver gentleman and politician (born 1717)
* September 14 – Louis de Moni, Dutch genre painter (born 1698)
*''date unknown''
**John Baker, English flower painter (born 1726)
**George Bickham the Younger, English etcher, engraver, printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists (born 1706)
**Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain, French engraver (born 1710)
** Charles Exshaw, Irish painter and engraver (born unknown)
** Johan Georg Geitel, Finnish painter (born 1683)
**Ding Guanpeng, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (date of birth ''unknown'')
**Giuseppe Marchesi, Italian painter active mainly in Bologna (born 1699)
**Felice Polanzani, Italian engraver (born 1700)
** Johann Preissler, German engraver (born 1698)
**Andrea Soldi, Italian portrait painter working in London (born 1703)
*''probable'' – Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (born 1720)

References

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Years of the 18th century in art
1770s in art