1779 in art

Events from the year 1779 in art.

Events

• August 25 – The Salon of 1779 opens at the Louvre in Paris. ^[1]
• October 8 – William Blake enrols as a student with the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House in London.

Paintings

Charles Willson Peale, Washington at Princeton , Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

• Joseph Duplessis – Portrait of the Comte d'Angiviller
• Thomas Gainsborough – Gypsy Encampment, Sunset
• Per Krafft the Elder – Carl Michael Bellman
• Charles Willson Peale – George Washington at Princeton
• Joshua Reynolds
  • Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children
  • Lady Jane Halliday
  • Admiral Lord Keppel (National Portrait Gallery, London)
• Dominic Serres
  • Destruction of the American Fleet at Penobscot Bay
  • The Battle of Quiberon Bay
• George Stubbs
  • The Labourers
  • A Lion and a Tiger
  • Mambrino
• Benjamin West
  • Portrait of George III
  • Portrait of Queen Charlotte

Births

• January 3 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter (died 1819)
• February 20 – Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (died 1844)
• March 21 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (died 1843)
• April 19 - Anson Dickinson, American painter of miniature portraits (died 1852)
• May 27 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassicism painter (died 1860)
• July 8 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (died 1851)
• July 26 – Erik Gustaf Göthe, Swedish sculptor (died 1838)
• August 24 – Charles Norris, English topographical etcher and writer known for his landscape work of the Welsh countryside (died 1858)
• November 4 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (died 1853)
• November 5 – Washington Allston, American painter, the "American Titian" (died 1843) ^[2]
• November 6 – Henry Pierce Bone, English enamel painter (died 1855)
• December 9 – Moritz Retzsch, German painter and etcher (died 1857)
• date unknown
  • Paolo Caronni, Italian engraver (died 1842)
  • Guillaume Descamps, French painter and engraver (died 1858) ^[3]
  • Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (died 1846)

Deaths

• January 26 – Thomas Hudson, English portrait painter (born 1701)
• February 4 – John Hamilton Mortimer, English Neoclassical painter known primarily for his romantic paintings and pieces set in Italy and its countryside (born 1740)
• March 14 – Joseph-Charles Roettiers, French engraver and medallist (born 1689)
• April – Károly Bebo, Hungarian sculptor, builder and decorator noted for his stucco work (born 1712)
• June 29 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (born 1728)
• September 14 – Anton Pichler, Austrian goldsmith and engraver (born 1697)
• October – John Giles Eccardt, German-born English portrait painter (date of birth unknown) ^[4]
• December 6 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (born 1699)

References

1. Baetjer, Katharine. French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019. p.29
2. "Allston, Washington". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75361.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
3.  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Bryan, Michael (1886). "Descamps, Guillaume Désiré Joseph". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
4.  Eccardt, John Giles (1888). "Eccardt, John Giles". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.