1780 In Art

Events from the year 1780 in art.

Events

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Works

* Jacques-Louis David
** '' Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki''
** ''Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken''
* Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – '' Les Marionettes polonaises''
* Francisco Goya – '' Christ Crucified''
* Francis Holman – '' The moonlight Battle of Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780''
* Jacob More
** ''Landscape with Classical Figures, Cicero at his Villa''
** ''Mount Vesuvius in Eruption: The Last Days of Pompeii''
* Sir Joshua Reynolds – ''The Ladies Waldegrave''
* John Trumbull – ''George Washington''
* Francis Wheatley – '' The Irish House of Commons''
* Johann Zoffany
*
Double Portrait of Henry and Mary Styleman
(commissioned)
** Portrait of Tipu Sultan

Births

* January 10 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter active in England (died 1852)
* February 15 – Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (died 1860)
* February 18 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian genre painter (died 1847)
* April 14 – Edward Hicks, American folk artist (died 1849)
* June 12 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter (died 1847)
* August 8 – Étienne Bouhot, French painter and art teacher (died 1862)
* August 29 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter (died 1867)
* September – Samuel Colman, English painter (died 1845)
* September 15 – Johann Peter Krafft, German-Austrian painter (died 1856)
* October 26 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (died 1850)
* ''date unknown''
** Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (died 1853)
** Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (died 1844)
** Jan Krzysztof Damel, Lithuanian neoclassicist painter (died 1840)

Deaths

* February 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (born 1724)
* February 21 – Francesco Foschi, Italian landscape painter (born 1710)
* March 3 – Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter (born 1692)
* May 6 – Gaspare Bazzani, Italian painter active in Reggio as a painter of vedute or landscapes (date of birth unknown)
* July 11 – Luis Egidio Meléndez, Spanish still-life painter (born 1716)
* September 6 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter (born 1701)
* September 7 – Pieter Barbiers, Dutch painter (born 1717)
* October 17 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or ''vedutista'', and printmaker in etching (born 1720)
* ''date unknown''
** James Giles, British porcelain decorator (born 1718)
** Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (born 1750)
* ''probable''
** Robert Hunter, Irish painter (date of birth unknown)
** Nicolas Jean Baptiste Poilly, French draftsman and engraver (born 1712)
** Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1700)
** Wenceslaus Werlin, Austrian portrait artist (date of birth unknown)

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