1776 in art

List of years in art       (table)
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Events

• John Robert Cozens sets out on a three-year tour of Switzerland and Italy.

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

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)

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)