Events

Works

• William Blake's monotypes Nebuchadnezzar, Newton,^[1] The Night of Enitharmon's Joy and Pity.
• Philip James de Loutherbourg's painting Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June.

Births

• February 10 Ary Scheffer, French painter of Dutch extraction (died 1858)
• May 3 Richard James Wyatt, English sculptor (died 1850)
• June 23 (bapt.) William Wyon, English chief engraver at the Royal Mint (died 1851)
• July 11 Amasa Hewins, American portrait, genre, and landscape painter (died 1855)
• September 12 John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, sign maker and coachman in Victorian England (died 1865)
• October 20 William Bewick, English portrait painter (died 1866)
• date unknown William Behnes, English sculptor (died 1864)

Deaths

• January 3 Josiah Wedgwood, potter (born 1730)
• January 13 John Hickey, Irish-born sculptor (born 1756)
• June 12 Johann Christian Brand, Austrian painter (born 1722)
• June 23 Alexei Antropov, Russian barocco painter (born 1716)
• August 4 Francisco Bayeu y Sub as, Spanish painter in the Neoclassic style, primarily of religious and historical themes (born 1734)
• November 15 Charles-Am d e-Philippe van Loo, portrait painter (born 1719)
• November 18 Antonio Cavallucci, Italian painter of the late Baroque (born 1752)
• date unknown
  • Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, French sculptor in the neoclassical style (born 1710)
  • Maruyama Ohkyo, Japanese painter (born 1733)
  • Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Italian art biographer and painter of the late-Baroque period (born 1737)
  • Francesco Sozzi, Italian painter (born 1732)
  • Antonio Zucchi, Italian painter of the Neoclassic period (born 1726)

References

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