1780 in art
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Events from the year 1780 in art.
Events
Works
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Goya's entry work for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando
- Jacques-Louis David
- Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – Les Marionettes polonaises
- Francisco Goya – Christ Crucified
- Francis Holman – The moonlight Battle of Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780
- Jacob More
- Landscape with Classical Figures, Cicero at his Villa
- Mount Vesuvius in Eruption: The Last Days of Pompeii
- Sir Joshua Reynolds – The Ladies Waldegrave
- John Trumbull – George Washington
- Francis Wheatley – The Irish House of Commons
- Johann Zoffany
- Double Portrait of Henry and Mary Styleman (commissioned)
- Portrait of Tipu Sultan
Births
- 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
- Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (died 1853)
- Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (died 1844)
- Jan Krzysztof Damel, Lithuanian neoclassicist painter (died 1840)
Deaths
- 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
- James Giles, British porcelain decorator (born 1718)
- Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (born 1750)
- probable
- Robert Hunter, Irish painter (date of birth unknown)
- Nicolas Jean Baptiste Poilly, French draftsman and engraver (born 1712)
- Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1700)
- Wenceslaus Werlin, Austrian portrait artist (date of birth unknown)
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