1778 in art

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Events

• Nicholas Pocock gives up his career as a seaman and devotes himself to painting.

Paintings

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778

See also: Category:1778 paintings

• John Singleton Copley - Watson and the Shark
• Goya - Children With a Cart
• Gilbert Stuart - Self-portrait

Births

• January 1 - Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (d. 1846)
• February 22 - Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
• May 31 - John Jackson, English portrait painter (d. 1831)
• June 7 - Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (d. 1840)
• August 17 - John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (d. 1842)
• August 31 - Friedrich August von Klinkowström, German artist, author and teacher (d. 1835)
• September 1 - Reverend John Thomson, minister of Duddingston Kirk and Landscape artist (d. 1840)
• date unknown
  • Wilhelmina Krafft, Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist (d. 1828)
  • Tang Yifen - Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (d. 1853)

Deaths

• February 24 - Laurent Delvaux, French sculptor (b. 1695)
• March - Thomas Roberts, Irish landscape painter (b. 1748)
• March 6 - Gaudenzio Botti, Italian painter, mainly active in Brescia (b. 1698)
• May 20 - Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (b. 1700)
• November 9 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
• December 22 - Simon Mathurin Lantara, French landscape painter (b. 1729)
• date unknown
  • John Cobb, English cabinetmaker (b. 1710)
  • Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor (b. 1704)
  • Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (b. 1703)