1779 in art

Events from the year 1779 in art.

Events

January 3 – Gustav Philipp Zwinger, German painter (died 1819)
February 20 – Augustus Wall Callcott, English landscape painter (died 1844)
March 21 – Vojtěch Benedikt Juhn, Czech painter and engraver (died 1843)
April 19 - Anson Dickinson, American painter of miniature portraits (died 1852)
May 27 – Juan Antonio Ribera, Spanish Neoclassicism painter (died 1860)
July 8 – Giorgio Pullicino, Maltese painter and architect (died 1851)
July 26 – Erik Gustaf Göthe, Swedish sculptor (died 1838)
August 24 – Charles Norris, English topographical etcher and writer known for his landscape work of the Welsh countryside (died 1858)
November 4 – Jan Willem Pieneman, Dutch historical painter (died 1853)
November 5 – Washington Allston, American painter, the "American Titian" (died 1843)^[3]
November 6 – Henry Pierce Bone, English enamel painter (died 1855)
December 9 – Moritz Retzsch, German painter and etcher (died 1857)
date unknown
- Paolo Caronni, Italian engraver (died 1842)
- Guillaume Descamps, French painter and engraver (died 1858)^[4]
- Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (died 1846)

January 26 – Thomas Hudson, English portrait painter (born 1701)
February 4 – John Hamilton Mortimer, English Neoclassical painter known primarily for his romantic paintings and pieces set in Italy and its countryside (born 1740)
March 14 – Joseph-Charles Roettiers, French engraver and medallist (born 1689)
April – Károly Bebo, Hungarian sculptor, builder and decorator noted for his stucco work (born 1712)
June 29 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter (born 1728)
September 14 – Anton Pichler, Austrian goldsmith and engraver (born 1697)
October – John Giles Eccardt, German-born English portrait painter (date of birth unknown)^[5]
December 6 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (born 1699)

^ Baetjer, Katharine. French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019. p.29
^ https://pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/joconde/000PE007432
^ "Allston, Washington". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/75361. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Descamps, Guillaume Désiré Joseph". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
^ Eccardt, John Giles (1888). "Eccardt, John Giles". In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.