1775 in art

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Events

• Construction of the Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, now the National Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca.

Paintings

John Trumbull, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775

• John Trumbull – The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill

Births

• February 3 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general, painter and lithographer (d. 1848)
• February 18 – Thomas Girtin, English painter and etcher (d. 1802)
• March 24 – Pauline Auzou, French painter (d. 1835)
• April 21 – Alexander Anderson, illustrator (d. 1870)
• April 23 – J. M. W. Turner, English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker (d. 1851)
• July 1 – Cephas Thompson, portrait painter (d. 1856)
• July 5 – William Crotch, musician and painter (d. 1847)
• July 15 – Sir Richard Westmacott, sculptor (d. 1856)
• October 18 – John Vanderlyn, neoclassical painter (d. 1852)
• date unknown
  • Amelia Curran, Irish painter (d. 1847)
  • Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter (d. 1837)

Deaths

• January 8 – John Baskerville, typographer and craftsman (b. 1706)
• May 18 – Johann Joachim Kaendler, German modeller of Meissen porcelain in a rococo style (b. 1706)
• June 27 – Ignaz Günther, German sculptor and woodcarver within the Bavarian rococo tradition (b. 1725)
• July 21 – Szymon Czechowicz, Polish painter (born 1689)
• September 24 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter (b. 1705)
• October 21 – François-Hubert Drouais, French painter (b. 1727)
• date unknown – Carlo Carlone, Italian painter (b. 1686)
• probable – Mina Kolokolnikov – Russian painter and teacher (b. 1708)