1779 in art

Events from the year 1779 in art.

Events

 * October 8 – William Blake enrols as a student with the Royal Academy of Arts at Somerset House in London.

Paintings



 * Per Krafft the Elder – Carl Michael Bellman
 * David Martin – Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and Lady Elizabeth Murray
 * Charles Willson Peale – George Washington at Princeton
 * Sir Joshua Reynolds
 * Lady Elizabeth Delmé and Her Children
 * Lady Jane Halliday
 * Admiral Lord Keppel (National Portrait Gallery, London)
 * Dominic Serres – The Battle of Quiberon Bay
 * George Stubbs
 * The Labourers
 * A Lion and a Tiger
 * Mambrino

Births

 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Vasily Demut-Malinovsky, Russian sculptor in the Empire style (died 1846)

Deaths

 * 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)
 * December 6 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (born 1699)
 * date unknown
 * John Giles Eccardt, German-born English portrait painter (died 1779)
 * Lorenzo Feliciati, Italian painter (born 1732)