1794 in art

Events from the year 1794 in art.

Events

• English painter Thomas Birch comes to the United States to assist his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings entitled Birch's Views of Philadelphia, eventually published in 1799.

Works

• Martin Archer Shee – Self-Portrait
• William Blake – The Ancient of Days
• Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Triumph of Marat
• Mather Brown – Lord Howe on the Deck of the Queen Charlotte
• Giuseppe Ceracchi – Alexander Hamilton (marble portrait bust)
• John Singleton Copley – '
• Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – '
• Johann Friedrich Dryander
• Portrait du citoyen Laboucly, inspecteur de la viande
• Portrait de Dominique Joseph Garat
• Portrait du général Jourdan et de son adjutant
• John Flaxman – ' (marble group; completed)
• William Hamilton – Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution
• Anton Hickel – Portrait of Charles James Fox
• Jean-François Hue – View of the Port of Brest
• Thomas Jones – Classical Landscape with a River
• Angelica Kauffman
• '
• Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting
• Thomas Lawrence
• Catherine Rebecca Gray, Lady Manners
• Portrait of a Young Lady, known as Pinkie
• Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Grand Attack on Valenciennes
• Jean-Baptiste Regnault – La Liberté ou la Mort ("Liberty or Death"; original lost)
• Gilbert Stuart
• Portrait of Henry Cruger
• Portrait of Horatio Gates
• Portrait of John Jay
• George Stubbs – Baronet, with Samuel Chifney
• Benjamin West – Gentlemen Fishing
• Johann Zoffany – Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris

Births

• March 26 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (died 1872)
• May 13 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter (died 1835)
• June 3 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (died 1860)
• June 23 – Franz Nadorp, German painter who primarily worked and lived in Rome (died 1876)
• July 24 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (died 1865)
• August 29 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (died 1880)
• September 17 – Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter (died 1840)
• September 30 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter (died 1854)
• October – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (died 1847)
• October 19 – Charles Robert Leslie, English genre painter (died 1859)
• November 19 – James Stark, English painter (died 1859)
• December 31 – Samuel Jackson, English watercolour and oil painter (died 1869)
• date unknown
• Ferdinand Deppe, German naturalist, explorer and painter (died 1861)
• Abel Dimier, French sculptor (died 1864)
• Joseph Patrick Haverty, Irish painter (died 1864)
• William Heath, English satirical engraver (died 1840)
• Jan Feliks Piwarski, Polish painter and professor of art (died 1859)
• Johannes Baptista van Acker, Flemish portrait miniature painter (died 1863)

Deaths

• April 4 – Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, Dutch landscape painter (born 1737)
• April 14 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter (born 1733)
• May 13 – Pierre-François Brice, Belgian painter (born 1714)
• June 11 - Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, German portrait painter (born 1725)
• June 24 – Rosalie Filleul, French painter (born 1752)
• August 11 - Christian Ulrik Foltmar, Danish wallpaper weaver, painter of miniatures and organist (born 1716)
• October – Jean Humbert, Dutch portrait painter (born 1734)
• December 11 – Étienne Ficquet, French engraver (born 1719)
• date unknown
• Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter (born 1762)
• François Boch, ceramicist, co-founder of Villeroy & Boch (born 1695)
• Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (born 1730/1732)
• Philippe Curtius, wax modeller (born 1737)
• Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher (born 1723)
• Jacopo Marieschi, Italian vedute painter (born 1711)

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