1781 in art

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Works

Henry Fuseli , The Nightmare, 1781, Detroit Institute of Arts

• Jacques-Louis David – Belisarius begging for alms
• Henry Fuseli – The Nightmare

Births

• March (probable) – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter (d. 1868)
• March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, architect and painter (d. 1841)
• April 22 – José de Madrazo y Agudo, Spanish Neoclassic painter (d. 1859)
• November 1 – Joseph Stieler, German painter (d. 1858)
• November 11 - Caroline Bardua, German painter (d. 1864)
• date unknown
  • Étienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (d. 1863)
  • Thomas Douglas Guest, British portrait painter (d. 1845)
  • Francis Hervé, French-born British painter (d. 1850)
  • Kikuchi Yōsai – Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome portraits of historical figures (d. 1878)
• probable – John Wesley Jarvis, American painter (d. 1839)

Deaths

• January 15 – Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English sculptor (b. 1703)
• March 2 – Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (b. 1707)
• September 30 – Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, French etcher and painter (b. 1734)
• October 22 – Johann August Nahl, German sculptor and stucco artist (b. 1710)
• November 3 – Jakob Emanuel Handmann, Swiss painter (b. 1718)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Caccianiga, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1700)
  • Ubaldo Gandolfi, Italian painter (b. 1728)
  • Peter Scheemakers, Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor (b. 1691)