1778 in art
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Events from the year 1778 in art.
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Events
- December – The artistic cargo of the British ship Westmorland, seized by the French, is acquired by Spanish interests.
- Nicholas Pocock gives up his career as a seaman and devotes himself to painting.
Paintings
- John Singleton Copley – Watson and the Shark
- Francisco Goya – Children With a Cart
- Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of Rousseau
- John Hamilton Mortimer – Sir Arthegal, the Knight of Justice, with Talus, the Iron Man (from Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’)
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Richard Samuel – Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo
- Gilbert Stuart – Self-portrait
- Benjamin West - The Battle of the Boyne
- Johann Zoffany – Tribuna of the Uffizi (completed)
Births
- January 1 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (died 1846)
- February 22 – Rembrandt Peale, American artist (died 1860)
- May 31 – John Jackson, English portrait painter (died 1831)
- June 7 – Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (died 1840)
- August 11 – John Christian Schetky, Scottish-born marine painter (died 1874)
- August 17
- John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (died 1842)
- 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)
- date unknown
- Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (died 1827)
- Cornelis Cels, Belgian painter of portraits and historical subjects (died 1859)
- Christian Friedrich Traugott Duttenhofer, German engraver (died 1843)
- Wilhelmina Krafft, Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist (died 1828)
- Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (died 1860)
- 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)
- September 11 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German painter and grandson of the composer (born 1748)
- October 2 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (born 1726)
- November 9 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (born 1720)
- 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)
- Jean Girardet, French painter of portrait miniatures (born 1709)
- Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (born 1703)
- Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor (born 1704)
- Wojciech Rojowski, Polish sculptor and woodcarver (born unknown)
- Pieter Vanderlyn, American colonial painter (born 1687)
