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Overview of the events of 1781 in art
Events from the year 1781 in art.
Henry Fuseli,
The Nightmare, 1781,
Detroit Institute of Arts
The Sharp Family by
Johann Zoffany.
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February 26 –
Étienne-Jean Delécluze,
French painter and critic (died
1863)
- March (probable) –
John Burnet, Scottish
engraver and painter (died
1868)
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March 13 –
Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect and painter (died
1841)
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March 20 –
Joseph Paelinck, Belgian painter (died
1839)
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April 7 –
Francis Leggatt Chantrey, English sculptor of the
Georgian era (died
1841)
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April 8 –
Luke Clennell, English engraver and painter (died
1840)
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April 22 –
José de Madrazo y Agudo, Spanish
Neoclassic painter (died
1859)
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July 25 –
Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (died
1853)
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October 12 –
William Westall,
English landscape painter (died
1850)
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November 1 –
Joseph Stieler, German painter (died
1858)
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November 11 –
Caroline Bardua, German painter (died
1864)
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November 21 –
Cornelius Varley, English
watercolor painter (died
1873)
- date unknown
- probable –
John Wesley Jarvis,
American
painter (died
1839)
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January 15 –
Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English sculptor (born
1703)
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February 22 –
Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, Italian Rococo sculptor (born
1699)
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March 2 –
Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (born
1707)
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April 10 –
Teodor Kračun, Serbian painter (born
1730)
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June 5 –
Noël Hallé, French painter, draftsman and printmaker (born
1711)
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September 12 –
Peter Scheemakers,
Flemish
Roman Catholic sculptor (born
1691)
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September 30 –
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, French etcher and painter (born
1734)
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October 22 –
Johann August Nahl, German sculptor and stucco artist (born
1710)
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November 3 –
Jakob Emanuel Handmann, Swiss painter (born
1718)
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November 12 –
Jean Grandjean, Dutch painter, draftsman, and watercolourist (born
1752)
- date unknown