1776 in art
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Events from the year 1776 in art.
Events
- John Robert Cozens sets out on a three-year tour of Switzerland and Italy.
Works
- Pompeo Batoni – General William Gordon of Fyvie
- Nathaniel Dance-Holland – The Dashwoods at West Wycombe Park
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard – A Young Girl Reading (approximate date)
- Tilly Kettle – The ceremony of a gentoo woman taking leave of her relations and distributing her jewels prior to ascending the funeral pyre of her deceased husband
- Anton Raphael Mengs – Self-portrait
Births
- February 16 – Abraham Raimbach, engraver (died 1843)
- March 30 – Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, painter (died 1857)
- April 2 – John Higton, English painter primarily of animals (died 1827)
- June 11 – John Constable, English romantic painter (died 1837)
- June 29 – František Horčička, Czech history and portrait painter (died 1856)
- August 16 – Amalia von Helvig, German and Swedish artist, writer, translator, and influential intellectual (died 1831)
- October 18 – John Vanderlyn, U.S. neoclassicist painter (died 1852)
- date unknown
- Félix Boisselier, French historical painter (died 1811)
- Élise Bruyère, French painter who specialized in portraits and floral still lifes (died 1847)
- Alexei Egorovich Egorov, Russian painter (died 1861)
- Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter (died 1847)
- Carlo Restallino, Italian painter and engraver (died 1864)
- Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish artist (died 1819)
Deaths
- February 2 – Francis Hayman, painter and illustrator (born 1708)
- March 4 - Johann Georg Ziesenis, German-Danish portrait painter (born 1716)
- March 18 – Gerard Vandergucht, English born engraver and art dealer (born c.1696)
- April 1 – Gaetano Lapis, Italian painter (born 1704)
- May 4 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor (born 1717)
- July 29 – Charles Francois Hutin, French history and figure painter, engraver and sculptor (born 1715)
- August – Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, painter (born 1736)
- September 22 – Giuseppe Peroni, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1700)
- date unknown
- Vittorio Bigari, Italian painter (born 1692)
- Angelica Le Gru Perotti, Italian painter (born 1719)
- Thomas Pingo, medallist and engraver (born 1692)
- Ike no Taiga, Japanese painter and calligrapher (born 1723)
- Mattheus Verheyden, Dutch painter (born 1700)