1780 in art

Events from the year 1780 in art.

Works

 * Jacques-Louis David
 * Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki
 * Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken
 * 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)