1795 in art

Events

Works

• William Blake's monotypes Nebuchadnezzar, Newton,^[1] The Night of Enitharmon's Joy and Pity.
• Philip James de Loutherbourg's painting Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June.

Births

• February 10 – Ary Scheffer, French painter of Dutch extraction (d. 1858)
• June – Richard James Wyatt, sculptor (d. 1850)
• July 11 – Amasa Hewins, American portrait, genre, and landscape painter (d. 1855)
• date unknown
  • William Behnes – English sculptor (d. 1864)
  • William Bewick, English portrait painter (d. 1866)
  • John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, sign maker, and coachman in Victorian England (d. 1865)
  • William Wyon, English chief engraver at the Royal Mint (d. 1851)

Deaths

• January 3 – Josiah Wedgwood, potter (b. 1730)
• June 12 – Johann Christian Brand, Austrian painter (b. 1722)
• June 23 – Alexei Antropov, Russian barocco painter (b. 1716)
• August 4 – Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Spanish painter in the Neoclassic style, primarily of religious and historical themes (b. 1734)
• November 15 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, portrait painter (b. 1719)
• November 18 – Antonio Cavallucci, Italian painter of the late Baroque (b. 1752)
• date unknown
  • Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain – French sculptor in the neoclassical style (b. 1710)
  • Maruyama Ohkyo, Japanese painter (b. 1733)
  • Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Italian art biographer and painter of the late-Baroque period (b. 1737)
  • Antonio Zucchi, Italian painter of the Neoclassic period (b. 1726)

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