1779 in art
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Events from the year 1779 in art.
Events
- October 8 – William Blake enrols as a student with the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House in London.
Paintings
- Charles Willson Peale – George Washington at Princeton
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children
- Lady Jane Halliday
- Admiral Lord Keppel (National Portrait Gallery, London)
- Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and Lady Elizabeth Murray
Births
- January 3 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter (died 1819)
- February 20 – Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (died 1844)
- March 21 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (died 1843)
- April 19 - Anson Dickinson, American painter of miniature portraits (died 1852)
- May 27 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassicism painter (died 1860)
- July 26 – Erik Gustaf Göthe, Swedish sculptor (died 1838)
- August 24 – Charles Norris, English topographical etcher and writer known for his landscape work of the Welsh countryside (died 1858)
- November 5 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (died 1843)
- November 6 – Henry Pierce Bone, English enamel painter (died 1855)
- December 9 – Moritz Retzsch, German painter and etcher (died 1857)
- date unknown
- Paolo Caronni, Italian engraver (died 1842)
- Guillaume Descamps, French painter and engraver (died 1858)
- Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (died 1846)
Deaths
- January 26 – Thomas Hudson, English portrait painter (born 1701)
- February 4 – John Hamilton Mortimer, English Neoclassical painter known primarily for his romantic paintings and pieces set in Italy and its countryside (born 1740)
- March 14 – Joseph-Charles Roettiers, French engraver and medallist (born 1689)
- April – Károly Bebo, Hungarian sculptor, builder and decorator noted for his stucco work (born 1712)
- June 29 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (born 1728)
- September 14 – Anton Pichler, Austrian goldsmith and engraver (born 1697)
- December 6 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (born 1699)
- date unknown
- John Giles Eccardt, German-born English portrait painter (died 1779)
- Lorenzo Feliciati, Italian painter (born 1732)
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