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1780 in art
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April 18, 2025
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Events from the year
1780 in art
.
Events
1 May – The
Royal Academy Exhibition of 1780
opens in
London
, the first to be held at the Academy's new headquarters at
Somerset House
Works
Goya
's
entry work
for the
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
John Singleton Copley
–
Portrait of Hugh Montgomerie
Jacques-Louis David
Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki
Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken
Thomas Gainsborough
–
Portrait of Jeffery Amherst
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
Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Sir William Chambers
Self-Portrait
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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