1776 in art
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Events from the year 1776 in art.
Events
- John Robert Cozens sets out on a three-year tour of Switzerland and Italy.
Works
- Nathaniel Dance-Holland â The Dashwoods at West Wycombe Park
- Joseph Duplessis â Portrait of Louis XVI[1]
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard â A Young Girl Reading (approximate date)
- Thomas Gainsborough â Portrait of Johann Christian Bach
- William Hodges â A View of Cape Stephens in Cook's Straits with Waterspout
- Angelica Kauffman â Armida in Vain Endeavours with Her Entreaties to Prevent Rinaldo's Departure[2]
- Tilly Kettle â The ceremony of a gentoo woman taking leave of her relations and distributing her jewels prior to ascending the funeral pyre of her deceased husband
- Anton Raphael Mengs â Self-portrait
- Sir Joshua Reynolds â Huang Ya Dong ('Wang-Y-Tong')
- George Romney â Portrait of Richard Cumberland
- Benjamin West
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Births
- February 16 â Abraham Raimbach, English engraver (died 1843)
- March 30 â Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, Russian painter (died 1857)
- April 2 â John Higton, English animal painter (died 1827)
- April 13 â Félix Boisselier, French historical painter (died 1811)
- June 11 â John Constable, English romantic landscape painter (died 1837)
- June 12 â Pierre Révoil, French painter (died 1842)
- June 29 â FrantiÅ¡ek HorÄiÄka, Czech history and portrait painter (died 1856)
- August 9 â Jacob Munch, Norwegian painter and military officer (died 1839)
- August 14 â Christian Friedrich Tieck, German sculptor (died 1851)
- August 15 â Gottlieb Schick, German Neoclassical portrait painter (died 1812)
- August 16 â Amalia von Helvig, German and Swedish artist, writer, translator and intellectual (died 1831)
- October 8 â Pieter van Os, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1839)
- October 18 â John Vanderlyn, American Neoclassical painter (died 1852)
- November 5 â Abraham Teerlink, Dutch painter (died 1857)
- December 26 â Charles Hamilton Smith, Flemish-born English illustrator and soldier (died 1859)
- date unknown
- Ãlise Bruyère, French painter specializing in portraits and floral still lifes (died 1847)
- Alexei Yegorov, Russian painter (died 1861)
- Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter (died 1847)
- Carlo Restallino, Italian painter and engraver (died 1864)
- Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish textile artist (died 1819)
Deaths
- February 2 â Francis Hayman, painter and illustrator (born 1708)
- March 4 - Johann Georg Ziesenis, German-Danish portrait painter (born 1716)
- March 18 â Gerard Vandergucht, English born engraver and art dealer (born c.1696)
- April 1 â Gaetano Lapis, Italian painter (born 1704)
- May 4 â Jacques Saly, French sculptor (born 1717)
- July 29 â Charles Francois Hutin, French history and figure painter, engraver and sculptor (born 1715)
- August â Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, painter (born 1736)
- September 22 â Giuseppe Peroni, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1700)
- date unknown
- Vittorio Bigari, Italian painter (born 1692)
- Angelica Le Gru Perotti, Italian painter (born 1719)
- Thomas Pingo, medallist and engraver (born 1692)
- Ike no Taiga, Japanese painter and calligrapher (born 1723)
- Mattheus Verheyden, Dutch painter (born 1700)