1779 in art

Paintings

• Charles Willson Peale – George Washington

Births

• January 3 - Gustav Philipp Zwinger (d. 1819)
• February 20 – Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (d. 1844)
• November 5 – Washington Allston, painter, the "American Titian" (d. 1843)
• December 9 – Moritz Retzsch, painter and etcher (d. 1857)
• date unknown – Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (d. 1846)

Deaths

• June 29 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (born 1728)
• December 6 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (born 1699)
• date unknown
  • Lorenzo Feliciati, Italian painter (born 1732)
  • Thomas Hudson, English portrait painter (born 1701)
  • John Hamilton Mortimer, British Neoclassical painter known primarily for his romantic paintings and pieces set in Italy and its countryside (b. 1740)