1794 in art

Overview of the events of 1794 in art

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Events from the year 1794 in art.

## Events

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* English painter Thomas Birch comes to the United States to assist his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings entitled Birch's Views of Philadelphia, eventually published in 1799.[1]

## Works

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William Blake \- The Ancient of Days (1794), watercolour etching

* William Blake – The Ancient of Days
* Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Triumph of Marat
* Mather Brown – Lord Howe on the Deck of the Queen Charlotte
* Giuseppe Ceracchi – Alexander Hamilton (marble portrait bust)
* John Singleton Copley – Admiral of the Fleet Howe
* Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – The Hanging of Traitors in Effigy
* Johann Friedrich Dryander
* Portrait du citoyen Laboucly, inspecteur de la viande
* Portrait de Dominique Joseph Garat
* Portrait du général Jourdan et de son adjutant
* John Flaxman – The Fury of Athamas (marble group; completed)
* William Hamilton – Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution
* Thomas Jones – Classical Landscape with a River
* Angelica Kauffman
* Portrait of the Impromptu Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca
* Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting
* Thomas Lawrence
* Catherine Rebecca Gray, Lady Manners
* Portrait of a Young Lady, known as Pinkie
* Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Grand Attack on Valenciennes
* Jean-Baptiste Regnault – La Liberté ou la Mort ("Liberty or Death"; original lost)
* Gilbert Stuart
* Portrait of Henry Cruger
* Portrait of Horatio Gates
* Portrait of John Jay
* George Stubbs – Baronet, with Samuel Chifney
* Johann Zoffany – Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris

## Births

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Paul Sandby – A View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills (1794), gouache and watercolour painting on Whatman wove paper

* March 26 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (died 1872)
* May 13 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter (died 1835)
* June 3 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (died 1860)
* June 23 – Franz Nadorp, German painter who primarily worked and lived in Rome (died 1876)
* July 24 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (died 1865)
* August 29 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (died 1880)
* September 17 – Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter (died 1840)
* September 30 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter (died 1854)
* October – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (died 1847)
* October 19 – Charles Robert Leslie, English genre painter (died 1859)
* November 19 – James Stark, English painter (died 1859)
* December 31 – Samuel Jackson, English watercolour and oil painter (died 1869)
* date unknown
* Ferdinand Deppe, German naturalist, explorer and painter (died 1861)
* Abel Dimier, French sculptor (died 1864)
* Joseph Patrick Haverty, Irish painter (died 1864)
* William Heath, English satirical engraver (died 1840)
* Jan Feliks Piwarski, Polish painter and professor of art (died 1859)
* Johannes Baptista van Acker, Flemish portrait miniature painter (died 1863)

## Deaths

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* April 4 – Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, Dutch landscape painter (born 1737)
* April 14 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter (born 1733)
* May 13 – Pierre-François Brice, Belgian painter (born 1714)
* June 11 \- Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, German portrait painter (born 1725)
* June 24 – Rosalie Filleul, French painter (born 1752)[2]
* August 11 \- Christian Ulrik Foltmar, Danish wallpaper weaver, painter of miniatures and organist (born 1716)
* October – Jean Humbert, Dutch portrait painter (born 1734)
* December 11 – Étienne Ficquet, French engraver (born 1719)
* date unknown
* Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter (born 1762)
* François Boch, ceramicist, co-founder of Villeroy & Boch (born 1695)
* Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (born 1730/1732)
* Philippe Curtius, wax modeller (born 1737)
* Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher (born 1723)
* Jacopo Marieschi, Italian vedute painter (born 1711)

## References

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1. ^ Birch's Views from ushistory.org.
2. ^ "#AnneRosalieFilleul". ArtHerstory. Retrieved 26 February 2021.

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