1775 in art

Births

• February 3 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general, painter and lithographer (died 1848)
• February 18 – Thomas Girtin, English painter and etcher (died 1802)
• March 4 – Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter (died 1837)
• March 24 – Pauline Auzou, French painter (died 1835)
• April 21 – Alexander Anderson, illustrator (died 1870)
• April 23 – J. M. W. Turner, English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker (died 1851)
• July 1 – Cephas Thompson, portrait painter (died 1856)
• July 5 – William Crotch, musician and painter (died 1847)
• July 15 – Sir Richard Westmacott, sculptor (died 1856)
• September 16 – Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, Dutch engraver (died 1837)
• October 18 – John Vanderlyn, neoclassical painter (died 1852)
• October 31 – Antonín Machek, Czech painter (died 1844)
• December 29 – Thomas Heaphy, English water-colour and portrait painter (died 1835)
• date unknown
• Nathan Cooper Branwhite, English miniature portrait painter, watercolourist and engraver (died 1857)
• Amelia Curran, Irish painter (died 1847)
• Francis Engleheart, English engraver (died 1849)

Deaths

• January 8 – John Baskerville, typographer and craftsman (born 1707)
• March 17 – Carlo Carlone, Italian painter (born 1686)
• April 10 – Jonas Haas, German-born Danish engraver (born 1720)
• May 18 – Johann Joachim Kändler, German modeller of Meissen porcelain in a rococo style (born 1706)
• June 27 – Ignaz Günther, German sculptor and woodcarver within the Bavarian rococo tradition (born 1725)
• July 8 – Peder Als, Danish historical and portrait painter (born 1725)
• July 21 – Szymon Czechowicz, Polish painter (born 1689)
• August 29 – Francesco Sleter, Italian painter active in England (born 1685)
• September 24 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter (born 1705)
• October 21 – François-Hubert Drouais, French painter (born 1727)
• October 26 – Pierre-Edmé Babel, French engraver (born 1720)
• November 10 – Edme Dumont, French sculptor (born 1720)
• December 8 – Josef Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter (born 1719)
• December 20 – Sigismund Streit, German merchant and patron of the arts (born 1687)
• date unknown
• Jan George Freezen, German portrait painter (born 1701)
• Johan Graham, painter from London active in The Hague and Amsterdam (born 1705)
• probable – Mina Kolokolnikov, Russian painter and teacher (born 1708)

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