1776 in art
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[edit] Events
- John Robert Cozens sets out on a three-year tour of Switzerland and Italy.
[edit] Works
- Pompeo Batoni – General William Gordon of Fyvie
- Nathaniel Dance-Holland – The Dashwoods at West Wycombe Park
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard – A Young Girl Reading (approximate date)
- Tilly Kettle – The ceremony of a gentoo woman taking leave of her relations and distributing her jewels prior to ascending the funeral pyre of her deceased husband
- Anton Raphael Mengs – Self-portrait
[edit] Births
- February 16 – Abraham Raimbach, engraver (d. 1843)
- March 30 – Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, painter (d. 1857)
- June 11 – John Constable, English romantic painter (d. 1837)
- August 16 – Amalia von Helvig, German and Swedish artist, writer, translator, and influential intellectual (d. 1831)
- October 18 – John Vanderlyn, U.S. neoclassicist painter (d. 1852)
- date unknown – Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish artist (d. 1819)
[edit] Deaths
- February 2 – Francis Hayman, painter and illustrator (b. 1708)
- May 4 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
- August – Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, painter (b. 1736)
- date unknown
- Vittorio Bigari – Italian painter (b. 1692)
- Gaetano Lapis – Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (b. 1704)
- Giuseppe Peroni – Italian painter of frescoes (b. 1700)
- Angelica Le Gru Perotti, Italian painter (b. 1719)
- Thomas Pingo, medallist and engraver (b. 1692)
- Ike no Taiga – Japanese painter and calligrapher (b. 1723)