1794 in art

Events from the year 1794 in art.

Events

 * English painter Thomas Birch comes to the United States to assist his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings entitled Birch's Views of Philadelphia, eventually published in 1799.

Works

 * William Blake – The Ancient of Days
 * Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Triumph of Marat
 * Giuseppe Ceracchi – Alexander Hamilton (marble portrait bust)
 * John Singleton Copley – Admiral of the Fleet Howe
 * Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – The Hanging of Traitors in Effigy
 * Johann Friedrich Dryander
 * Portrait du citoyen Laboucly, inspecteur de la viande
 * Portrait de Dominique Joseph Garat
 * Portrait du général Jourdan et de son adjutant
 * John Flaxman – The Fury of Athamas (marble group; completed)
 * Thomas Jones – Classical Landscape with a River
 * Angelica Kauffman
 * Portrait of the Impromptu Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca
 * Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting
 * Thomas Lawrence
 * Catherine Rebecca Gray, Lady Manners
 * Portrait of a Young Lady, known as Pinkie
 * Jean-Baptiste Regnault – La Liberté ou la Mort ("Liberty or Death"; original lost)
 * Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of John Jay
 * George Stubbs – Baronet, with Samuel Chifney

Births

 * March 26 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (died 1872)
 * May 13 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter (died 1835)
 * June 3 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (died 1860)
 * June 23 – Franz Nadorp, German painter who primarily worked and lived in Rome (died 1876)
 * July 24 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (died 1865)
 * August 29 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (died 1880)
 * September 17 – Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter (died 1840)
 * September 30 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter (died 1854)
 * October – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (died 1847)
 * October 19 – Charles Robert Leslie, English genre painter (died 1859)
 * November 19 – James Stark, English painter (died 1859)
 * December 31 – Samuel Jackson, English watercolour and oil painter (died 1869)
 * date unknown
 * Ferdinand Deppe, German naturalist, explorer and painter (died 1861)
 * Abel Dimier, French sculptor (died 1864)
 * Joseph Patrick Haverty, Irish painter (died 1864)
 * William Heath, English satirical engraver (died 1840)
 * Jan Feliks Piwarski, Polish painter and professor of art (died 1859)
 * Johannes Baptista van Acker, Flemish portrait miniature painter (died 1863)

Deaths

 * April 4 – Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, Dutch landscape painter (born 1737)
 * April 14 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter (born 1733)
 * May 13 – Pierre-François Brice, Belgian painter (born 1714)
 * June 11 - Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, German portrait painter (born 1725)
 * June 24 – Rosalie Filleul, French painter (born 1752)
 * August 11 - Christian Ulrik Foltmar, Danish wallpaper weaver, painter of miniatures and organist (born 1716)
 * October – Jean Humbert, Dutch portrait painter (born 1734)
 * December 11 – Étienne Ficquet, French engraver (born 1719)
 * date unknown
 * Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter (born 1762)
 * François Boch, ceramicist, co-founder of Villeroy & Boch (born 1695)
 * Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (born 1730/1732)
 * Philippe Curtius, wax modeller (born 1737)
 * Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher (born 1723)
 * Jacopo Marieschi, Italian vedute painter (born 1711)