1781 in art
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Events from the year 1781 in art.
Events
- August 25 â The Salon of 1781 opens at the Louvre in Paris[1]
- August 27 â Danish artists Marie Jeanne Crevoisier and Johan Frederik Clemens are married.
Works
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- George Barret, Sr. â View of Windermere Lake, Early Morning[2]
- Jacques-Louis David
- Philip James de Loutherbourg â Eidophusikon
- Henry Fuseli â The Nightmare
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Anton Graff â Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
- Jean-Antoine Houdon â Portrait busts of Voltaire and Molière
- Ãlisabeth Vigée Le Brun â Juno Borrowing the Belt of Venus
- Joshua Reynolds
- The Death of Dido[3]
- Thaïs
- George, 2nd Earl Harcourt, his wife Elizabeth and his brother William (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
- John Francis Rigaud â Portrait of Horatio Nelson
- George Romney
- Ann Bowes
- The Charteris Children
- Dominic Serres â The Moonlight Battle
- François-André Vincent â The Intervention of the Sabine Women[4]
- Joseph Wright of Derby â Portrait of Sir Brooke Boothby
- Johann Zoffany
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Births
- February 26 â Ãtienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (died 1863)
- March (probable) â John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter (died 1868)
- March 13 â Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect and painter (died 1841)
- March 20 â Joseph Paelinck, Belgian painter (died 1839)
- April 7 â Francis Leggatt Chantrey, English sculptor of the Georgian era (died 1841)
- April 8 â Luke Clennell, English engraver and painter (died 1840)
- April 22 â José de Madrazo y Agudo, Spanish Neoclassic painter (died 1859)
- July 25 â Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (died 1853)
- October 12 â William Westall, English landscape painter (died 1850)
- November 1 â Joseph Stieler, German painter (died 1858)
- November 11 â Caroline Bardua, German painter (died 1864)
- November 21 â Cornelius Varley, English watercolor painter (died 1873)
- date unknown
- Thomas Douglas Guest, British portrait painter (died 1845)
- Francis Hervé, French-born British painter (died 1850)
- probable â John Wesley Jarvis, American painter (died 1839)
Deaths
- January 15 â Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English sculptor (born 1703)[5]
- February 22 â Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, Italian Rococo sculptor (born 1699)
- April 10 â Teodor KraÄun, Serbian painter (born 1730)
- June 5 â Noël Hallé, French painter, draftsman and printmaker (born 1711)
- September 12 â Peter Scheemakers, Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor (born 1691)
- September 30 â Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, French etcher and painter (born 1734)
- October 22 â Johann August Nahl, German sculptor and stucco artist (born 1710)
- November 3 â Jakob Emanuel Handmann, Swiss painter (born 1718)
- November 12 â Jean Grandjean, Dutch painter, draftsman, and watercolourist (born 1752)
- date unknown
- Etienne Aubry, French painter of primarily portraits and genre subjects (born 1746)
- Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, French art critic and director of the official French policy in the arts (born 1707)
- Francesco Caccianiga, Italian painter and engraver (born 1700)
- Carlo Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (born 1705)
- Jacques-Ignace de La Touche, French painter of miniatures and portraits (born 1694)
- Ubaldo Gandolfi, Italian painter (born 1728)