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Events

Works

Jacques-Louis David
- Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki
- Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken
Philip James de Loutherbourg – Warley Camp
Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – Les Marionettes polonaises
Francisco Goya – Christ Crucified
Francis Holman – The moonlight Battle of Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780
Jacob More
- Landscape with Classical Figures, Cicero at his Villa
- Mount Vesuvius in Eruption: The Last Days of Pompeii
Sir Joshua Reynolds – The Ladies Waldegrave
John Trumbull – George Washington
Francis Wheatley – The Irish House of Commons
Johann Zoffany
- Double Portrait of Henry and Mary Styleman (commissioned)
- Portrait of Tipu Sultan

Births

January 10 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter active in England (died 1852)
February 15 – Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (died 1860)
February 18 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian genre painter (died 1847)
April 14 – Edward Hicks, American folk artist (died 1849)
June 12 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter (died 1847)
August 8 – Étienne Bouhot, French painter and art teacher (died 1862)
August 29 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter (died 1867)
September – Samuel Colman, English painter (died 1845)
September 15 – Johann Peter Krafft, German-Austrian painter (died 1856)
October 26 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (died 1850)
date unknown
- Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (died 1853)
- Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (died 1844)
- Jan Krzysztof Damel, Lithuanian neoclassicist painter (died 1840)

Deaths

February 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (born 1724)
February 21 – Francesco Foschi, Italian landscape painter (born 1710)
March 3 – Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter (born 1692)
May 6 – Gaspare Bazzani, Italian painter active in Reggio as a painter of vedute or landscapes (date of birth unknown)
July 11 – Luis Egidio Meléndez, Spanish still-life painter (born 1716)
September 6 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter (born 1701)
September 7 – Pieter Barbiers, Dutch painter (born 1717)
October 17 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching (born 1720)
date unknown
- James Giles, British porcelain decorator (born 1718)
- Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (born 1750)
probable
- Robert Hunter, Irish painter (date of birth unknown)
- Nicolas Jean Baptiste Poilly, French draftsman and engraver (born 1712)
- Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1700)
- Wenceslaus Werlin, Austrian portrait artist (date of birth unknown)

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