Overview of the events of 1780 in art
Overview of the events of 1780 in art
Events from the year 1780 in art.
Goya's entry work for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
- January 10 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter active in England (died 1852)
- February 15 – Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (died 1860)
- February 18 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian genre painter (died 1847)
- April 14 – Edward Hicks, American folk artist (died 1849)
- June 12 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter (died 1847)
- August 8 – Étienne Bouhot, French painter and art teacher (died 1862)
- August 29 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter (died 1867)
- September – Samuel Colman, English painter (died 1845)
- September 15 – Johann Peter Krafft, German-Austrian painter (died 1856)
- October 26 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (died 1850)
- date unknown
- February 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (born 1724)
- February 21 – Francesco Foschi, Italian landscape painter (born 1710)
- March 3 – Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter (born 1692)
- May 6 – Gaspare Bazzani, Italian painter active in Reggio as a painter of vedute or landscapes (date of birth unknown)
- July 11 – Luis Egidio Meléndez, Spanish still-life painter (born 1716)
- September 6 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter (born 1701)
- September 7 – Pieter Barbiers, Dutch painter (born 1717)
- October 17 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching (born 1720)
- date unknown
- probable