1780 in art
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- February 18 – Alexey VenetsianovAlexey VenetsianovAlexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov was a Russian painter, renowned for his paintings devoted to the peasant life and ordinary people.Alexey Venetsianov was born to a merchant family of Greek descent in Moscow. He entered state service in the early 19th century and moved to St. Petersburg, where he...
, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people (d. 18471847 in art-Events:*William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly-completed Palace of Westminster.-Works:*Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus*Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight...
) - April 14 – Edward HicksEdward HicksEdward Hicks was an American folk painter, a distinguished minister of the Society of Friends, and he also became a Quaker icon because of his paintings.-Early life:...
, folk artist (d. 18491849 in art-Events:* May – First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: John Everett Millais' Isabella and Holman Hunt's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Free Exhibition on Hyde Park Corner, London.* May – John Ruskin...
) - August 29 – Jean Auguste Dominique IngresJean Auguste Dominique IngresJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest...
, 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...
NeoclassicalNeoclassicismNeoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...
painter (d. 18671867 in art-Paintings:*George Henry Boughton - Pilgrims Going To Church*Giuseppe Calì - Death of Dragut *Edgar Degas - The Bellelli Family completed *Édouard Manet...
) - September 15 – Johann Peter KrafftJohann Peter KrafftJohann Peter Krafft was a German-Austrian painter.Krafft was born in Hanau, Hesse. At the age of ten, he began his art studies at the Hanau Akademie. In 1799, he moved to Vienna and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts for three years under the tutelage of Heinrich Füger...
, German-Austrian painter (d. 18561856 in art- Works :*Samuel Colman - Meadows and Wildflowers at Conway*Hiroshige - Sudden Shower at the Atake Bridge*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - La Source*John Everett Millais - The Blind Girl*Eugene von Guerard - View of Geelong...
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- Johann Adam AckermannJohann Adam AckermannJohann Adam Ackermann was a German landscape painter of the early 19th century.He was born in Mainz and moved to Frankfurt in 1804. His best-known works are his winter landscapes and watercolours...
, German landscape painter (d. 18531853 in art-Works:*Théodore Chassériau - The Tepidarium *Gustave Courbet - The Bathers *Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience...
) - Étienne BouhotÉtienne BouhotÉtienne Bouhot was a French painter and art teacher. He was the director of the École de Dessin in Semur-en-Auxois.-External links:*...
– 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...
and art teacher (d. 18621862 in art-Works:*Augustus Egg - Travelling Companions*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - The Turkish Bath*Édouard Manet**Concert in the Tuileries Gardens **Lola de Valence **Mlle...
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- Johann Adam Ackermann
Deaths
- September 7 – Pieter BarbiersPieter BarbiersPieter Antonsz Barbiers was a skilful Dutch artist. He painted scenery for the theaters in Amsterdam, Leiden, etc., and a picture representing the conflagration of the former in the year 1772 has been engraved by C. Bagerts.His sons Bartholomeus Barbiers and Pieter Pietersz Barbiers were also...
, Dutch painter (b. 1717) - October 17 – Bernardo BellottoBernardo BellottoBernardo Bellotto was a Venitian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching famous for his vedutes of European cities . He was the pupil and nephew of Canaletto and sometimes used the latter's illustrious name, signing himself as Bernardo Canaletto...
, Italian urban landscapeLandscape 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...
painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etchingEtchingEtching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...
(b. 17201720 in art-Paintings:* Antoine Watteau – The shop sign of Gersaint-Births:*January 19 – John Boydell, engraver *January 20 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching...
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- Françoise BasseporteFrançoise BasseporteMadeleine Françoise Basseporte, was a French painter.She became one of the pupils of Claude Aubriet thanks to her precocious talent for design. She replaced him as the Royal Painter after his death...
, painter (b. 1701) - Gaspare BazzaniGaspare BazzaniGaspare Bazzani was an Italian painter active in Reggio Emilia as a painter of vedute or landscapes.-References:...
, Italian painter active in ReggioReggioReggio is the name of two Italian towns:* Reggio Calabria, in the South, also called Reggio di Calabria or, in ancient times, Pallantion, Rhegion, Febea, Regium, Rhegium Julium, Risa, Rivah...
as a painter of vedute or landscapes - James GilesJames Giles (porcelain decorator)James Giles was a decorator of Worcester, Derby, Bow and Chelsea porcelain and also glass, who created gilt and enamelled objects such as decanters, drinking-glasses, perfume bottles and rosewater sprinklers, for a rococo and neoclassical market....
, porcelain decorator (b. 1718) - Joseph HighmoreJoseph HighmoreJoseph Highmore was an English portrait and historical painter, illustrator and author.-Life:Highmore was born in London, the third son of Edward Highmore, a coal merchant, and nephew of Thomas Highmore, Serjeant Painter to William III. He displayed early ability but was discouraged by his family...
– British portrait and historical painter (b. 16921692 in art-Births:*June 3 - Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter *September 1 - Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor active during the period of the Late Baroque *date unknown...
) - Luis Egidio Meléndez, Spanish still-life painter (b. 17161716 in art-Births:*March 19 – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, painter *March 25 – Alexei Antropov, Russian barocco painter *June 18 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter *December 1 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French Rococo sculptor...
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- Françoise Basseporte
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- Rocco PozziRocco PozziRocco Pozzi was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period, active around 1750.He was the brother of Stefano Pozzi. He engraved several of the plates for the Museo Florentino, and...
, Italian painter and engraver - Francesco Toschi – ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
vedutaVedutaA veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista....
painter (b. 17101710 in art-Births:*March 8 – Gaetano Majorano, Italian castrato and opera singer *May 8 – Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, Flemish sculptor and architect *May 23 – François Gaspard Adam, French rococo sculptor...
) - Wenceslaus WerlinWenceslaus WerlinWenceslaus Werlin was an Austrian painter.Werlin specialized in portraits. He died in Florence in 1780. -References:...
– AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n portrait artist (b. unknown)
- Rocco Pozzi