1774 in art

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Events

• Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun becomes a member of the Académie.

Works

• Richard Wilson – Pembroke Town and Castle

Births

• February 17 – Raphaelle Peale, considered the first professional American painter of still-life (d. 1825)
• September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, Romantic painter (d. 1840)
• Pierre-Narcisse Guérin – French painter (d. 1833)
• Gai Qi – poet and painter born in the west of China under the Qing dynasty (d. 1829)
• George Chinnery, painter (d. 1852)
• William Jennys, American naïve art portrait painter (d. 1859)
• Johann Georg Primavesi – German etcher and painter, primarily of landscapes (d. 1855)
• Charles Henry Schwanfelder – English animal, landscape and portrait painter (d. 1837)
• Marie-Denise Villers – French painter specializing in portraits (d. 1821)
• Lisa Erlandsdotter, Swedish artist (d. 1854)

Deaths

• January 28 – Antonio Galli Bibiena, Italian architect, also at Vienna Hofburg (born 1700)
• April 11 – Elias Gottlob Haussmann, German painter (b. 1695)
• April 23 – Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter (b. 1712)
• date unknown
  • Philippe Caffieri, sculptor (b. 1714)
  • Anna Morandi Manzolini, sculptor in wax (b. 1714)
  • Pierre-Jean Mariette, art collector (b. 1694)
  • Simon François Ravenet, French engraver (b. 1706)
• probable – Anton Čebej, Slovenian baroque painter (b. 1722)