1769 in art
Events from the year 1769 in art.
Events
- 25 April-27 May – First Royal Academy summer exhibition held at Pall Mall in London.
- 1 May-2 June The annual Society of Artists Exhibition of 1769 takes place in Spring Gardens in London.
- 25 August – The Salon of 1769 opens at the Louvre in Paris
Awards
Works
- Pierre-Antoine Baudouin – The Honest Model
- Pompeo Batoni – Emperor Joseph II and Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo of Tuscany
- Charles Catton – Self-portrait
- Joseph Ducreux – Marie Antoinette
- Nathaniel Dance-Holland
- * Portrait of Capability Brown
- * Portrait of Queen Charlotte
- * The Pybus Family
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
- * Inspiration
- * Self-portrait with palette and brushes
- Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Lady Molyneux
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze – Septimius Severus and Caracalla
- Christopher Hewetson – Busts of Charles Townley and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn
- Ozias Humphry – Charlotte, Princess Royal
- Joshua Reynolds – Portrait of the Earl of Carlisle
- Alexander Roslin – John Jennings, His Brother and Sister-in-Law
- George Stubbs – The Milbanke and Melbourne Families
- Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert – Love Triumphant
- Benjamin West – The Departure of Regulus
- Joseph Wright of Derby – An Academy by Lamplight
- Johann Zoffany
- * The Bradshaw Family
- * ''The Drummond Family''
Births
- January 8 – Pietro Benvenuti, Italian neoclassical painter
- January 31 – Henry Howard, English portrait and history painter
- March 4 – Ellen Sharples, English painter who specialized in portraits and watercolor miniatures
- March 9 – Adélaïde Binart, French neoclassical painter
- March 19 – Jacques François Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines, French painter and draughtsman
- April 3 – Josiah Wedgwood II, English pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood
- April 13 – Sir Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter
- April 23 – Cornelia Scheffer, Dutch painter and portrait miniaturist
- June 26 – Robert Hills, English painter and etcher
- September 11 – Johann Erdmann Hummel, German painter
- September 19 – George Raper, English naval officer and nature artist
- October 18 – Jacques-Luc Barbier-Walbonne, French historical and portrait painter
- October 23 – James Ward, English painter, primarily of animals, and engraver
- December 9 – Adèle Romany, French painter
- December 23 – Sir Martin Archer Shee, British portrait painter
- December 29 – Robert Havell, Sr., English engraver and publisher date unknown
- * Thomas Barker, British painter of landscape and rural life
- * Pierre Charles Cior, French painter of historical subjects, portraits and miniatures
- * William Cuming, Irish portrait painter
- * Bartolomé Montalvo, Spanish painter specializing in landscapes, hunted animals and still lifes
- * François Mulard, French neoclassical painter
- * Karl Postl, Austrian painter
- * Sin Wi, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period
- * Toyokuni, Japanese master of ukiyo-e, especially Kabuki actor prints
Deaths
- March 22 - Jean-Charles François, French engraver
- May 11 - Francesco Carlo Rusca, Italian painter
- May 31 - Francesco Fontebasso, Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period of Venice
- June 24 – Jan Palthe, Dutch portrait painter
- August 17 – Giuseppe Bazzani, Italian painter of the Rococo
- October 13 – Vito D'Anna, Italian painter, one of the most important artists of Sicily
- November 4 – Andreas Brünniche, Danish portrait painter
- November 5 – Prince Hoare, English sculptor
- December 15 – Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, French miniature painter and engraver date unknown
- * Jacques-François Amand, French historical painter
- * Giuseppe Grisoni, painter and sculptor
- * Alexis Peyrotte, French decorator painter
- * Sim Sajeong, Korean genre works painter in the style of the Joseon period probable – Hakuin Ekaku, Japanese Zen master, noted for his painting and calligraphy