1778 in art

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Events from the year 1778 in art.

## Events

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* 24 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1778 opens at Pall Mall in London
* December – The artistic cargo of the British ship Westmorland, seized by the French, is acquired by Spanish interests.[1]
* Nicholas Pocock gives up his career as a seaman and devotes himself to painting.

## Paintings

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John Singleton Copley – Watson and the Shark Richard Samuel – Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo. Benjamin West – The Battle of La Hogue.

* John Singleton Copley – Watson and the Shark
* Thomas Gainsborough
* Portrait of Philip James de Loutherbourg
* Portrait of James Christie
* Francisco Goya – Children With a Cart
* Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait busts of Rousseau and Voltaire
* Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Portrait of Joseph Vernet[2]
* David Martin – Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray[3]
* John Hamilton Mortimer – Sir Arthegal, the Knight of Justice, with Talus, the Iron Man (from Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’)
* Sir Joshua Reynolds
* Jane, Countess of Harrington
* Lady Caroline Howard[4]
* Captain John Hayes St Leger
* Joshua Reynolds – The Marlborough Family
* George Romney – Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon, and Her Son, George Gordon
* Richard Samuel – Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo
* Gilbert Stuart – Self-portrait
* Henry Walton – A Girl Buying a Ballad
* Benjamin West
* The Battle of the Boyne
* The Battle of La Hogue
* Johann Zoffany – Tribuna of the Uffizi (completed)

## Births

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* January 1 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (died 1846)
* February 22
* Franz Ludwig Catel, German artist (died 1856)[5]
* Rembrandt Peale, American artist (died 1860)[6]
* May 31 – John Jackson, English portrait painter (died 1831)[7]
* June 7 – Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (died 1840)
* June 10
* Cornelis Cels, Belgian painter of portraits and historical subjects (died 1859)[8]
* Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (died 1860)[9]
* June 15 – Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, Franco-English painter (died 1865)
* August 4 – Christian Duttenhofer, German engraver (died 1843)
* August 11 – John Christian Schetky, Scottish-born marine painter (died 1874)
* August 17
* Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, Dutch painter (died 1851)
* John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (died 1842)[10]
* Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, Dutch painter and draughtsman (died 1851)
* August 31 – Friedrich August von Klinkowström, German artist, author and teacher (died 1835)
* September 1 – Reverend John Thomson, minister of Duddingston Kirk and Landscape artist (died 1840)[11]
* October 5 – John James Masquerier, British portrait artist (died 1855)
* date unknown
* Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (died 1827)[12]
* Wilhelmina Krafft, Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist (died 1828)
* Nukina Kaioku, Japanese painter and calligrapher (died 1863)
* Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (died 1853)

## Deaths

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* January 4 \- Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, French painter and draftsman (born 1720)
* February 19 – Nathan Drake, English painter (born c.1728)
* February 24 – Laurent Delvaux, French sculptor (born 1696)
* March – Thomas Roberts, Irish landscape painter (born 1748)
* March 6 – Gaudenzio Botti, Italian painter, mainly active in Brescia (born 1698)
* May 20 – Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (born 1700)
* May 25 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor (born 1704)
* September 11 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German painter and grandson of the composer (born 1748)
* September 28 – Jean Girardet, French painter of portrait miniatures (born 1709)[13]
* October 2 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (born 1726)
* November 9 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (born 1720)[14]
* December 15 \- Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter (born 1723)
* December 22 – Simon Mathurin Lantara, French landscape painter (born 1729)
* date unknown
* John Cobb, English cabinetmaker (born 1710)[15]
* Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (born 1703)[16]
* Wojciech Rojowski, Polish sculptor and woodcarver (born unknown)
* Pieter Vanderlyn, American colonial painter (born 1687)[17]

## References

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1. ^ Griñán, F (September 2024). "Treasures from British ship return to Malaga after more than 200 years". Retrieved 24 December 2024.
2. ^ Gita May (2008). Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun: The Odyssey of an Artist in an Age of Revolution. Yale University Press. p. 87\. ISBN 9780300130003.
3. ^ Jeffries, Stuart (2014-05-27). "Dido Belle: the artworld enigma who inspired a movie". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 13 December 2024.
4. ^ "Lady Caroline Howard". National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 13 February 2025.
5. ^ John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. C. Scribner's sons. p. 254.
6. ^ Carol Eaton Hevner; Rembrandt Peale (1985). Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860, a Life in the Arts: An Exhibition at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1985 to June 28, 1985. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. p. 12\. ISBN 978-0-910732-19-2.
7. ^ Allan Cunningham (1880). The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters. George Bell. p. 107.
8. ^ John Denison Champlin (1927). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Empire State Book Company. p. 262.
9. ^ Wacha: "Mähler, Joseph Willibrord". In: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 5, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1972, p. 404\. (in German)
10. ^ Claus Michael Kauffmann; John Varley (1984). John Varley, 1778-1842. B.T. Batsford. p. 11\. ISBN 978-0-7134-3402-6.
11. ^ Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1887). The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical. Seeley. p. 70.
12. ^ Samuel Redgrave (1874). A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 51.
13. ^ Adolf K. Placzek; Angela Giral (1997). Avery's Choice: Five Centuries of Great Architectural Books : One Hundred Years of an Architectural Library, 1890-1990. G.K. Hall. p. 80.
14. ^ Benjamin Burges Moore (1962). Giovanni Battista Piranesi. p. 26.
15. ^ The Illustrated London News. William Little. 1959. p. 19.
16. ^ Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1891). DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 157.
17. ^ Antiques. Straight Enterprises. 1959. p. 546.

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