1785 in art
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Events from the year 1785 in art.
Events
- 27 April â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1785 opens at Somerset House in London
- April Joseph Wright of Derby holds a one-man exhibition in Covent Garden in London, having severed his official connection with the Royal Academy
- 25 August â The Salon of 1785 opens at the Louvre in Paris
Works
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- Lemuel Francis Abbott â Portrait of William Herschel
- William Beechey â Portrait of Edward Miles[1]
- Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre â Portrait of a Seated Gentleman
- Jean Germain Drouais â The Wounded Warrior[2]
- Joseph Duplessis â Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (approximate date)
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Anton Graff â Self-portrait with his family
- Hugh Douglas Hamilton â Lord Edward Stuart
- Jean-Antoine Houdon â Portrait bust of George Washington
- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard â Self-portrait with two pupils
- Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine â Portrait of Zamor
- Isidro Lorea â Main altarpiece of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral (carved wood)
- Philip James de Loutherbourg â A View near Matlock, Derbyshire
- Joshua Reynolds â
- George Romney â At least two portraits of Emma Hart
- Alexander Roslin â Self Portrait while Painting the King of Sweden
- Gilbert Stuart
- George Stubbs â Haymakers and Reapers (Tate Britain)
- Joseph Wright of Derby â The Lady in Milton's Comus
Births
- January 8 â Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, Belgian landscape painter (died 1844)
- April 26 â John James Audubon, Haitian-born American naturalist and painter (died 1851)
- September 1 â José Gil de Castro, Afro-Peruvian painter especially of portraits of Peru's heroes (died c. 1841)
- September 26 â Charles Bird King, American portrait artist who notably paints Native American delegates visiting Washington, D.C. (died 1862)
- October 12 â Henry Thomas Alken, English engraver, illustrator and sporting artist (died 1851)
- October 31 â Georg Friedrich Kersting, German painter of Biedermeier-style interior paintings (died 1847)
- November 18 â David Wilkie, Scottish painter and engraver (died 1841)
- December 1 â Abraham Constantin, Swiss enamel painter (died 1851)
- December 23 â Christian Gobrecht, American engraver (died 1844)
- December 30 â Edouard Pingret, French painter and lithographer (died 1869)
- date unknown
- Pál Balkay, Hungarian painter and teacher (died 1846)
- Daniel Havell, English engraver (died 1822)
- Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter, Flemish historical, landscape and genre painter and engraver (died 1873)
- probable â Bernardo Consorti, Italian line-engraver (died unknown)
Deaths
- January 2 â Andrés de la Calleja, Spanish painter (born 1705)
- April 13 â Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, French historical painter and etcher (born 1700)
- May 8 â Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (born 1701)
- August 20 â Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (born 1714)[3]
- October 4 â Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (born 1736)
- October 19 â Hugues Taraval, French painter (born 1729)
- December 14 â Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (born 1727)
- date unknown
- John Hodges Benwell, English genre painter (born 1764; consumption)[4]
- Johannes de Bosch, Dutch painter, engraver and draughtsman (born 1713)
- William Cochran, Scottish painter (born 1738)[5]
- Pietro Gaspari, Italian artist, known for veduta and capriccio in etchings and paintings (born 1720)
- Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, French painter and printmaker (born 1716)
- Jean-Baptiste Le Paon, French battle scene painter (born 1736/38)
- José Luzán, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1710)
- Krzysztof Perwanger, Polish sculptor and mayor (born 1700)
