1771 in art
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Events from the year 1771 in art.
Events
- Limoges porcelain manufacture established in France.
- 24 April â Royal Academy Exhibition of 1771 opens in Pall Mall in London
- 25 August â The Salon of 1771 opens at the Louvre in Paris
Works
- Cristóbal de Aguilar â Manuel de Amat y Junient as Protector of the Monastery of the Nazarene
- Ãtienne Aubry â Portrait of Louis-Claude Vassé[1]
- Pompeo Batoni â The Continence of Scipio
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin â Self-portrait in spectacles (pastel)
- Louis-Bernard Coclers â 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)
- Portrait of John Montresor
- Nathaniel Dance-Holland â David Garrick as Richard III at Bosworth
- Jacques-Louis David â Minerva Fighting Mars (Combat de Mars contre Minerve)
- Anton Graff
- Jean-Antoine Houdon â Portrait bust of Diderot
- John Hamilton Mortimer â Combined portrait of Dr Daniel Solander, Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, Dr John Hawkesworth and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
- Alexander Roslin â King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers
- Samuel Scott â The Thames and the Tower of London
- Claude Joseph Vernet â Seaport by Moonlight
- Francis Wheatley â Scene from Twelfth Night
- Richard Wilson
- Joseph Wright of Derby[4]
- Johan Zoffany â Portrait of George III
Births
- March 16 â Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (died 1835)
- April 13 â Jakob Wilhelm Roux, German draughtsman and painter (died 1830)
- May 2 â John Henning, Scottish sculptor and medallist (died 1851)
- May 14 â Thomas Wedgwood, pioneer photographer (died 1805)
- November 6
- Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography (died 1834)
- Jovan PaÄiÄ, Serbian painter and poet (died 1849)
- November 20 â Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (died 1835)
- December 16 â 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 â Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (born 1688)
- March 20 â Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (born 1707)
- April 14 â Laurent Cars, French designer and engraver (born 1699)
- May 11 â Franz Edmund Weirotter, Austrian landscape painter (born 1733)
- September 9 â Robert Wood, British engraver gentleman and politician (born 1717)
- September 14 â 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 â Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (born 1720)