1794 In Art

Events from the year 1794 in art.

Events

* English painter Thomas Birch comes to the United States to assist his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings entitled ''Birch's Views of Philadelphia'', eventually published in 1799.

Works

* William Blake – ''The Ancient of Days''
* Louis-Léopold Boilly – ''The Triumph of Marat''
* Giuseppe Ceracchi – ''Alexander Hamilton'' (marble portrait bust)
* John Singleton Copley – '' Admiral of the Fleet Howe''
* Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – '' The Hanging of Traitors in Effigy''
* Johann Friedrich Dryander
** ''Portrait du citoyen Laboucly, inspecteur de la viande''
** ''Portrait de Dominique Joseph Garat''
** ''Portrait du général Jourdan et de son adjutant''
* John Flaxman – '' The Fury of Athamas'' (marble group; completed)
* Thomas Jones – ''Classical Landscape with a River''
* Angelica Kauffman
** '' Portrait of the Impromptu Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca''
**
Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting
'
* Thomas Lawrence
** ''Catherine Rebecca Gray, Lady Manners''
** ''Portrait of a Young Lady'', known as '' Pinkie''
* Jean-Baptiste Regnault – ''La Liberté ou la Mort'' ("Liberty or Death"; original lost)
* Gilbert Stuart – '' Portrait of John Jay''
* George Stubbs –
Baronet, with Samuel Chifney
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Births

* March 26 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (died 1872)
* May 13 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter (died 1835)
* June 3 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (died 1860)
* June 23 – Franz Nadorp, German painter who primarily worked and lived in Rome (died 1876)
* July 24 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (died 1865)
* August 29 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (died 1880)
* September 17 – Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter (died 1840)
* September 30 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter (died 1854)
* October – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (died 1847)
* October 19 – Charles Robert Leslie, English genre painter (died 1859)
* November 19 – James Stark, English painter (died 1859)
* December 31 – Samuel Jackson, English watercolour and oil painter (died 1869)
* ''date unknown''
** Ferdinand Deppe, German naturalist, explorer and painter (died 1861)
** Abel Dimier, French sculptor (died 1864)
** Joseph Patrick Haverty, Irish painter (died 1864)
** William Heath, English satirical engraver (died 1840)
** Jan Feliks Piwarski, Polish painter and professor of art (died 1859)
** Johannes Baptista van Acker, Flemish portrait miniature painter (died 1863)

Deaths

* April 4 – Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, Dutch landscape painter (born 1737)
* April 14 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter (born 1733)
* May 13 – Pierre-François Brice, Belgian painter (born 1714)
* June 11 - Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, German portrait painter (born 1725)
* June 24 – Rosalie Filleul, French painter (born 1752)
* August 11 - Christian Ulrik Foltmar, Danish wallpaper weaver, painter of miniatures and organist (born 1716)
* October – Jean Humbert, Dutch portrait painter (born 1734)
* December 11 – Étienne Ficquet, French engraver (born 1719)
* ''date unknown''
** Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter (born 1762)
** François Boch, ceramicist, co-founder of Villeroy & Boch (born 1695)
** Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (born 1730/1732)
** Philippe Curtius, wax modeller (born 1737)
** Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher (born 1723)
** Jacopo Marieschi, Italian ''vedute'' painter (born 1711)

References

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Years of the 18th century in art
1790s in art