1780 in art

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Events from the year 1780 in art.

Events

Works

Goya's entry work for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando

• George Washington (Trumbull)
• Jacques-Louis David
  • Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki
  • Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken
• Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – Les Marionettes polonaises
• Francisco Goya – Christ Crucified
• Francis Holman – The moonlight Battle of Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780
• Jacob More
  • Landscape with Classical Figures, Cicero at his Villa
  • Mount Vesuvius in Eruption: The Last Days of Pompeii
• Sir Joshua Reynolds – The Ladies Waldegrave
• Francis Wheatley – The Irish House of Commons
• Johann Zoffany
  • Double Portrait of Henry and Mary Styleman (commissioned)
  • Portrait of Tipu Sultan

Births

• January 10 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter, active in England (died 1852)
• February 15 - Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (died 1860)
• February 18 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people (died 1847)
• April 14 – Edward Hicks, folk artist (died 1849)
• August 29 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter (died 1867)
• September 15 – Johann Peter Krafft, German-Austrian painter (died 1856)
• October 26 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (died 1850)
• date unknown
  • Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (died 1853)
  • Étienne Bouhot – French painter and art teacher (died 1862)
  • Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (died 1844)
  • Samuel Colman, English painter (died 1845)
  • Jonas Damelis, Lithuanian neoclassicist painter (died 1840)

Deaths

• February 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (born 1724)
• March 3 – Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter (born 1692)
• July 11 - Luis Egidio Meléndez, Spanish still-life painter (born 1716)
• September 6 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter (born 1701)
• September 7 – Pieter Barbiers, Dutch painter (born 1717)
• October 17 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching (born 1720)
• date unknown
  • Gaspare Bazzani, Italian painter active in Reggio as a painter of vedute or landscapes (date of birth unknown)
  • Francesco Foschi, Italian landscape painter (born 1710)
  • James Giles, porcelain decorator (born 1718)
  • Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (born 1750)
• probable
  • Robert Hunter, Irish painter (date of birth unknown)
  • Nicolas Jean Baptiste Poilly, French draftsman and engraver (born 1712)
  • Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1700)
  • Wenceslaus Werlin, Austrian portrait artist (date of birth unknown)