1774 in art
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- February 17 – Raphaelle PealeRaphaelle PealeRaphaelle Peale is considered the first professional American painter of still-life.-Biography:...
, considered the first professional American painter of still-life (d. 18251825 in art-Births:*February 4 – Myles Birket Foster, illustrator and watercolour painter *March 13 – Hans Gude, painter *May 1 – Eleanor Vere Boyle, watercolorist *May 9 – James Collinson, Pre-Raphaelite painter...
) - September 5 – Caspar David FriedrichCaspar David FriedrichCaspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning...
, Romantic painter (d. 18401840 in art-Works:*Francis Danby – The Deluge*Eugène Delacroix – Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople *Edwin Landseer – Laying Down The Law, or Trial by Jury...
) - Pierre-Narcisse GuérinPierre-Narcisse GuérinPierre-Narcisse, baron Guérin was a French painter.-Biography:Guérin was born in Paris.A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault, he carried off one of the three grands prix offered in 1796, in consequence of the competition not having taken place since 1793...
– FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
painter (d. 18331833 in art-Events:*January – Honoré Daumier is released from prison after serving a 6-month term for caricaturing King Louis-Philippe of France as Gargantua in La Caricature.-Births:*April 17 – George Vicat Cole, painter...
) - Gai QiGai QiGai Qi was a poet and painter born in western China during the Qing dynasty. As an artist, he was active in Shanghai. In painting his works mainly concerned plants, beauty, and figures. However he also did numerous landscapes. In poetry he preferred the rhyming ci form and added such poems to his...
– poet and painter born in the west of China under the Qing dynastyQing DynastyThe Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....
(d. 18291829 in art-Events:*Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin and his brother Jean Paul Flandrin set out to walk to Paris from Lyons, in order to become pupils of Louis Hersent.-Paintings:*Karl Blechen – Tivoli*Eugène Delacroix – Sardanapalus...
) - George ChinneryGeorge ChinneryGeorge Chinnery was an English painter who spent most of his life in Asia, especially India and southern China.- Early life :Chinnery was born in London, where he studied at the Royal Academy Schools...
, painter (d. 18521852 in art-Works:*Gustave Courbet - Village Damsels and A Girl Spinning*William Holman Hunt - The Light of the World*Sir John Everett Millais - Ophelia-Births:*April 1 - Edwin Austin Abbey, American painter and illustrator...
) - William JennysWilliam JennysWilliam Jennys , also known as J. William Jennys, was an American primitive portrait painter who was active from about 1790 to 1810. He traveled throughout New England seeking commissions in rural areas and small towns....
, American naïve artNaïve artNaïve art is a classification of art that is often characterized by a childlike simplicity in its subject matter and technique. While many naïve artists appear, from their works, to have little or no formal art training, this is often not true...
portrait painter (d. 18591859 in art-Events:* April 26 - William Morris marries his model, Jane Burden.* Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes is exhibited in New York and draws 12,000 paying visitors....
) - Johann Georg PrimavesiJohann Georg PrimavesiJohann Georg Primavesi was a German etcher and painter, primarily of landscapes.Primavesi was born in Heidelberg. In 1812 he became a theatrical painter in Mannheim. He was dissatisfied with the artistic possibilities offered there, however, so moved to the royal theatre in Darmstadt...
– GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
etcher and painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
, primarily of landscapesLandscape artLandscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...
(d. 18551855 in art-Events:* Gustave Courbet exhibits his paintings including the monumental The Artist's Studio in a tent alongside the official Paris Salon, creating both public outrage and artistic admiration....
) - Charles Henry SchwanfelderCharles Henry SchwanfelderCharles Henry Schwanfelder was an English animal, landscape and portrait painter.He was the son of a German decorative painter and started out helping his father to paint clock faces and snuff boxes...
– English animal, landscape and portrait painter (d. 18371837 in art-Works:*John Martin – Manfred and the Witch of the Alps-Births:*February 12 – Thomas Moran, painter of the Hudson River School *May 8 – Alphonse Legros, painter and etcher *June 8 – Ivan Kramskoi, painter and art critic...
) - Marie-Denise VillersMarie-Denise VillersMarie-Denise Villers was a French painter, who specialized in portraits. She was born Marie-Denise Lemoine in Paris. She came from an artistic family, and her sisters Marie-Victoire Lemoine and Marie-Élisabeth Gabiou were also accomplished artists...
– FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
specializing in portraitPortraitthumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
s (d. 18211821 in art-Events:*At the age of eleven, Théodore Chassériau is accepted into the studio of Ingres.-Works:*Edward Hodges Baily – Eve at the Fountain*John Constable – The Hay Wain-Births:* January 27 - August Becker, painter...
) - Lisa ErlandsdotterLisa ErlandsdotterLisa Erlandsdotter , was a Swedish artist .Daughter of the gardener Erland Hallberg and Anna Maria Kristoffersdotter and the sister of Sven Erlandsson and Katarina Erlandsdotter ; the three siblings all became known as artists...
, Swedish artist (d. 18541854 in art-Works:*Gustave Courbet - The Meeting , *William Powell Frith - Ramsgate Sands*Holman Hunt - The Light of the World*Jean-François Millet - The Reaper...
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Deaths
- January 28 – Antonio Galli Bibiena, Italian architect, also at ViennaViennaVienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Hofburg (born 17001700 in art-Events:* Luca Giordano returns to Naples a wealthy man after the death of his patron, Charles II of Spain.* Pierre Le Gros the Younger is elected to the Accademia di San Luca.-Births:...
) - April 11 – Elias Gottlob HaussmannElias Gottlob HaussmannElias Gottlob Haussmann was a German painter in the late Baroque era. Haussmann served as court painter at Dresden, and from 1720 as the official portraitist at Leipzig...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painter (b. 16951695 in art-Paintings:* Mei Qing paints Two Immortals on Huangshan-Births:* Miguel Cabrera – Indigenous Zapotec painter, * Laurent Delvaux – French sculptor * Elias Gottlob Haussmann – German painter in the late Baroque era...
) - April 23 – Christian Wilhelm Ernst DietrichChristian Wilhelm Ernst DietrichChristian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich was a German painter and art administrator. In his own works, he was adept at imitating many earlier artists, but never developed a style of his own.-Biography:...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painter (b. 17121712 in art-Paintings:* Series The Seven Sacraments by Giuseppe Maria Crespi.-Births:*February 19 - Arthur Devis, English portrait painter, particularly known for his conversation pieces and other such small portraits...
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- Philippe Caffieri, sculptor (b. 17141714 in art-Births:*January 26 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor *August 1 - Richard Wilson, landscape painter *August 14 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter...
) - Anna Morandi ManzoliniAnna Morandi ManzoliniAnna Morandi Manzolini was a lecturer of anatomy and sculptor of anatomical models in wax. She was married to Giovanni Manzolini, a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna. When her husband became ill with tuberculosis, she received special permission to lecture in his place. She became...
, sculptor in wax (b. 17141714 in art-Births:*January 26 - Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor *August 1 - Richard Wilson, landscape painter *August 14 - Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter...
) - Pierre-Jean MariettePierre-Jean MariettePierre-Jean Mariette was a collector of and dealer in old master prints, a renowned connoisseur, especially of prints and drawings, and a chronicler of the careers of French Italian and Flemish artists...
, art collector (b. 16941694 in art-Events:* Fair, from a copy of the 14th century Siyar-i Nabi of al-Zarir, Istanbul, Turkey, is made. It is now kept at New York Public Library, New York Spencer Collection.-Births:...
) - Simon François RavenetSimon François RavenetSimon François Ravenet was a French engraver.He was born in Paris, where he studied engraving under Jacques-Philippe Le Bas before moving to London in 1750, where he founded a school of line engraving and is credited with the revival of engraving in England. He died in London...
, FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
engraver (b. 17061706 in art-Events:*Engraver Sebastien Le Clerc is granted the title of cavaliere Romano by the Pope.-Works:*Jan Brokoff - Statue of St Joseph, on the Charles Bridge in Prague -Births:*January 3 – Johann Caspar Füssli, portrait painter...
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- Philippe Caffieri, sculptor (b. 1714
- probable – Anton ČebejAnton CebejAnton Cebej was a Slovenian baroque painter.He was born in Sturje in modern day Ajdovščina.Notable works include Exaltation of the Cross from Vinica, painted in 1750 and Death of St Josephus painted in 1774 shortly before his death .Three of his paintings are in the National Gallery of Slovenia...
, SloveniaSloveniaSlovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
n baroqueBaroqueThe Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
painter (b. 17221722 in art-Births:*March 6 – Johann Christian Brand, Austrian painter *July 16 – Joseph Wilton, English sculptor and a founding member of the Royal Academy *October 3 – Johann Heinrich Tischbein, member of the Tischbein dynasty of German painters...
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