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Overview of the events of 1778 in art
Events from the year 1778 in art.
- December – The artistic cargo of the British ship
Westmorland, seized by the French, is acquired by Spanish interests.
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Nicholas Pocock gives up his career as a seaman and devotes himself to painting.
John Singleton Copley –
Watson and the Shark
Richard Samuel –
Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo.
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January 1 –
Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (died
1846)
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February 22
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May 31 –
John Jackson,
English portrait painter (died
1831)
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June 7 –
Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (died
1840)
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June 10
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June 15 –
Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, Franco-English painter (died
1865)
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August 4 –
Christian Duttenhofer, German engraver (died
1843)
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August 11 –
John Christian Schetky,
Scottish-born
marine painter (died
1874)
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August 17
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August 31 –
Friedrich August von Klinkowström,
German artist, author and teacher (died
1835)
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September 1 –
Reverend John Thomson,
minister of
Duddingston Kirk and
Landscape artist (died
1840)
[7]
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October 5 –
John James Masquerier, British portrait artist (died
1855)
- date unknown
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January 4 -
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, French painter and draftsman (born
1720)
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February 19 –
Nathan Drake, English painter (born c.1728)
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February 24 –
Laurent Delvaux, French sculptor (born
1696)
- March –
Thomas Roberts,
Irish
landscape painter (born
1748)
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March 6 –
Gaudenzio Botti,
Italian painter, mainly active in
Brescia (born
1698)
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May 20 –
Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (born
1700)
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September 11 –
Johann Sebastian Bach, German painter and grandson of the composer (born
1748)
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October 2 –
Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (born
1726)
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November 9 –
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (born
1720)
[9]
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December 15 -
Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter (born
1723)
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December 22 –
Simon Mathurin Lantara,
French
landscape painter (born
1729)
- date unknown
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^ John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913).
Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. C. Scribner's sons. p. 254.
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^ Carol Eaton Hevner; Rembrandt Peale (1985).
Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860, a Life in the Arts: An Exhibition at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1985 to June 28, 1985. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. p. 12.
ISBN
978-0-910732-19-2.
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^ Allan Cunningham (1880).
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters. George Bell. p. 107.
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^ John Denison Champlin (1927).
Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Empire State Book Company. p. 262.
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^ Wacha: "
Mähler, Joseph Willibrord". In:
Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Vol. 5,
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1972, p. 404. (in German)
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^ Claus Michael Kauffmann; John Varley (1984).
John Varley, 1778-1842. B.T. Batsford. p. 11.
ISBN
978-0-7134-3402-6.
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^ Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1887).
The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical. Seeley. p. 70.
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^ Samuel Redgrave (1874).
A Dictionary of Artists of the English School: Painters, Sculptors, Architects, Engravers and Ornamentists. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 51.
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^ Benjamin Burges Moore (1962).
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. p. 26.
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^
The Illustrated London News. William Little. 1959. p. 19.
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^ Adolf K. Placzek; Angela Giral (1997).
Avery's Choice: Five Centuries of Great Architectural Books : One Hundred Years of an Architectural Library, 1890-1990. G.K. Hall. p. 80.
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^ Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1891).
DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 157.
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^
Antiques. Straight Enterprises. 1959. p. 546.