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1774 in art

Overview of the events of 1774 in art

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Events from the year 1774 in art.

Events

Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Sir William Blackstone
Anton Graff – Johann Georg Sulzer
Thomas Jones – The Bard
Angelica Kauffman – Portrait of Lady Georgiana, Lady Henrietta Frances and George John Spencer, Viscount Althorp
Sir Joshua Reynolds – Portrait of Charles Coote, Earl of Bellamont, in robes of the Order of the Bath
Richard Wilson – Pembroke Town and Castle

January 5 – George Chinnery, English painter working in Asia (died 1852)
February 17 – Raphaelle Peale, considered the first professional American painter of still-life (died 1825)
April 18 – Antonio Basoli, Italian painter, interior designer, engraver and professor (died 1848)
May 13 – Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, French painter (died 1833)
June 10 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, German art historian (died 1817)
August 30 – Henri Van Assche, Belgian painter (died 1841)
September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, German Romantic painter (died 1840)
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- Giovanni Balestra, Italian engraver (died 1842)
- William Barnard, English mezzotint engraver (died 1849)
- Lisa Erlandsdotter, Swedish artist (died 1854)
- Jean-Pierre Franque, French historical subjects and portraiture painter (died 1860)
- Gai Qi, poet and painter born in the west of China under the Qing dynasty (died 1829)
- William Jennys, American naïve art portrait painter (died 1859)
- Archer James Oliver, British portrait painter (died 1842)
- Johann Georg Primavesi, German etcher and painter, primarily of landscapes (died 1855)
- Richard Sass, English landscape painter, etcher, and drawing master to royalty (died 1849)
- Charles Henry Schwanfelder, English animal, landscape and portrait painter (died 1837)
- Marie-Denise Villers, French painter specializing in portraits (died 1821)