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.
Nicholas Pocock gives up his career as a seaman and devotes himself to painting.

Paintings edit

John Singleton Copley – Watson and the Shark

Richard Samuel – Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo.

John Singleton Copley – Watson and the Shark
Francisco Goya – Children With a Cart
Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait busts of Rousseau and Voltaire
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
- 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 – The Battle of the Boyne
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)^[1]
- Rembrandt Peale, American artist (died 1860)^[2]
May 31 – John Jackson, English portrait painter (died 1831)^[3]
June 7 – Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (died 1840)
June 10
- Cornelis Cels, Belgian painter of portraits and historical subjects (died 1859)^[4]
- Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (died 1860)^[5]
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)^[6]
- 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)^[7]
October 5 – John James Masquerier, British portrait artist (died 1855)
date unknown
- Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (died 1827)^[8]
- 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)
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)^[9]
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)^[10]
- Jean Girardet, French painter of portrait miniatures (born 1709)^[11]
- Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (born 1703)^[12]
- Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor (born 1704)
- Wojciech Rojowski, Polish sculptor and woodcarver (born unknown)
- Pieter Vanderlyn, American colonial painter (born 1687)^[13]

References edit

^ 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.
^ Benjamin Burges Moore (1962). Giovanni Battista Piranesi. p. 26.
^ The Illustrated London News. William Little. 1959. p. 19.
^ 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.
^ Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1891). DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 157.
^ Antiques. Straight Enterprises. 1959. p. 546.

[1] John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. C. Scribner's sons. p. 254.

[2] 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.

[3] Allan Cunningham (1880). The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters. George Bell. p. 107.

[4] John Denison Champlin (1927). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Empire State Book Company. p. 262.

[5] Wacha: "Mähler, Joseph Willibrord". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 5, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1972, p. 404. (in German)

[6] Claus Michael Kauffmann; John Varley (1984). John Varley, 1778-1842. B.T. Batsford. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-7134-3402-6.

[7] Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1887). The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical. Seeley. p. 70.

[8] Samuel Redgrave (1874). A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 51.

[9] Benjamin Burges Moore (1962). Giovanni Battista Piranesi. p. 26.

[10] The Illustrated London News. William Little. 1959. p. 19.

[11] 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.

[12] Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1891). DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 157.

[13] Antiques. Straight Enterprises. 1959. p. 546.

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