1773 in art

Events from the year 1773 in art.

Events

 * July 25 – Francisco Goya marries Josefa Bayeu.
 * Ulrika Pasch elected in to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

Paintings

 * John Singleton Copley – Portrait of Mrs Winslow
 * François-Hubert Drouais – Portrait of Marie Antoinette
 * Dmitry Levitzky – Portraits of the young ladies of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg
 * Charles Willson Peale – Family Group portrait
 * Sir Joshua Reynolds – Lady Anne Luttrell, The Duchess of Cumberland
 * Joseph Wright of Derby – Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent
 * Melchior Wyrsch – Reginald Pole Carew
 * Joseph Vernet – A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas

Births

 * January 5 – Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter and drawer (died 1839)
 * January 31 – Luigi Pichler, German-Italian artist in engraved gems (died 1854)
 * July 7 – Moses Haughton the Younger, English engraver and painter of portrait miniatures (died 1849)
 * December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, and memorialist (died 1867)
 * December 16 – José Aparicio, Spanish painter of the Neoclassic period (died 1838)
 * date unknown
 * Edward Wedlake Brayley, English enameller, topographer, and writer (died 1854)
 * John Comerford, Irish miniature painter (died 1832)
 * Carl Conjola, German landscape painter (died 1831)
 * Luigi Rados, Italian engraver (died 1840)
 * Naitō Toyomasa, Japanese sculptor of netsuke from Tanba Province (died 1856)

Deaths

 * February 15 – Anna Maria Barbara Abesch, Swiss reverse glass painter (born 1706)
 * March 1 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect (born 1700)
 * March 26 – Johan Ross the Elder, Swedish painter (born 1695)
 * April 20 – Hubert-François Gravelot, French illustrator (born 1699)
 * July 2 – Dirk van der Burg, Dutch artist, landscape painter and watercolourist (born 1721)
 * August 19 – Francesco Zahra, Maltese painter (born 1710)
 * August 30 – Nicolau Nasoni, artist and architect (born 1691)
 * September 13 – Anton Janša, Slovene beekeeper and painter (born 1734)
 * December 4 – Anton Losenko, Ukrainian-Russian Neoclassical painter who specialized in historical subjects and portraits (born 1737)
 * December 22 – Georg Friedrich Strass, Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones and the rhinestone (born 1701)
 * date unknown
 * Gerhard Bockman, Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver (born 1686)
 * Thomas-Joachim Hébert, French ébéniste and furniture designer (born 1687)
 * Jakob Klukstad, Norwegian wood carver and painter (born 1705)
 * Antonio Rossi – Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (born 1700)
 * József Lénárd Wéber, Hungarian sculptor (born 1702)
 * Marcos Zapata, Peruvian Quechua painter (born 1710)