1778 in art

Births

• January 1 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (died 1846)
• February 22
• Franz Ludwig Catel, German artist (died 1856)
• Rembrandt Peale, American artist (died 1860)
• May 31 – John Jackson, English portrait painter (died 1831)
• June 7 – Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (died 1840)
• June 10
• Cornelis Cels, Belgian painter of portraits and historical subjects (died 1859)
• Joseph Willibrord Mähler, German portrait painter (died 1860)
• June 15 – Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, Franco-English painter (died 1865)
• August 4 – Christian Duttenhofer, German engraver (died 1843)
• August 11 – John Christian Schetky, Scottish-born marine painter (died 1874)
• August 17
• Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, Dutch painter (died 1851)
• John Varley, English watercolour painter and astrologer (died 1842)
• Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek, Dutch painter and draughtsman (died 1851)
• August 31 – Friedrich August von Klinkowström, German artist, author and teacher (died 1835)
• September 1 – Reverend John Thomson, minister of Duddingston Kirk and Landscape artist (died 1840)
• October 5 – John James Masquerier, British portrait artist (died 1855)
• date unknown
• Allen Robert Branston, English wood-engraver (died 1827)
• Wilhelmina Krafft, Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist (died 1828)
• Nukina Kaioku, Japanese painter and calligrapher (died 1863)
• Tang Yifen, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (died 1853)

Deaths

• January 4 - Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, French painter and draftsman (born 1720)
• February 19 – Nathan Drake, English painter (born c.1728)
• February 24 – Laurent Delvaux, French sculptor (born 1696)
• March – Thomas Roberts, Irish landscape painter (born 1748)
• March 6 – Gaudenzio Botti, Italian painter, mainly active in Brescia (born 1698)
• May 20 – Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (born 1700)
• May 25 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor (born 1704)
• September 11 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German painter and grandson of the composer (born 1748)
• September 28 – Jean Girardet, French painter of portrait miniatures (born 1709)
• October 2 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (born 1726)
• November 9 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (born 1720)
• December 15 - Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter (born 1723)
• December 22 – Simon Mathurin Lantara, French landscape painter (born 1729)
• date unknown
• John Cobb, English cabinetmaker (born 1710)
• Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (born 1703)
• Wojciech Rojowski, Polish sculptor and woodcarver (born unknown)
• Pieter Vanderlyn, American colonial painter (born 1687)

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