1771 in art

Events

• Limoges porcelain manufacture established in France.
• 24 April – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1771 opens in Pall Mall in London
• 25 August – The Salon of 1771 opens at the Louvre in Paris

Works

• Cristóbal de Aguilar – Manuel de Amat y Junient as Protector of the Monastery of the Nazarene
• Étienne Aubry – Portrait of Louis-Claude Vassé
• Pompeo Batoni – The Continence of Scipio
• Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – Self-portrait in spectacles
• Louis-Bernard Coclers – Interior of a Foundry
• John Singleton Copley
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• *Ezekiel Goldthwait and Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait
• * Portrait of John Montresor
• Nathaniel Dance-Holland – David Garrick as Richard III at Bosworth
• Jacques-Louis David – Minerva Fighting Mars
• Anton Graff
• *Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
• *Moses Mendelssohn
• Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of Diderot
• John Hamilton Mortimer – Combined portrait of Dr Daniel Solander, Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, Dr John Hawkesworth and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
• Alexander Roslin – King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers
• Samuel Scott – The Thames and the Tower of London
• Claude Joseph Vernet – Seaport by Moonlight
• Francis Wheatley – Scene from Twelfth Night
• Richard Wilson
• * Dinas Bran from Llangollen
• * View near Wynnstay
• Joseph Wright of Derby
• *The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful conclusion of his operation, as was the custom of the Ancient Chymical Astrologers
• * The Blacksmith's Shop
• Johan Zoffany – ''Portrait of George III''

Births

• March 16 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter
• April 13 – Jakob Wilhelm Roux, German draughtsman and painter
• May 2 – John Henning, Scottish sculptor and medallist
• May 14 – Thomas Wedgwood, pioneer photographer
• November 6
• * Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography
• * Jovan Pačić, Serbian painter and poet
• November 20 – Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver
• December 16 – Jean Broc, painter date unknown
• * Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, painter and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts
• * John Heaviside Clark, Scottish aquatint engraver and painter of seascapes and landscapes
• * Samuel Elmgren, Finnish painter
• * John Eyre, Australian painter and engraver
• * William Armfield Hobday, English portrait painter and miniaturist
• * Thomas Richmond, English miniature-painter
• * Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter

Deaths

• March 8 – Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor
• March 20 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter
• April 14 – Laurent Cars, French designer and engraver
• May 11 – Franz Edmund Weirotter, Austrian landscape painter
• September 9 – Robert Wood, British engraver gentleman and politician
• September 14 – Louis de Moni, Dutch genre painter
• date unknown
• *John Baker, English flower painter
• *George Bickham the Younger, English etcher, engraver, printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists
• *Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain, French engraver
• *Charles Exshaw, Irish painter and engraver
• *Johan Georg Geitel, Finnish painter
• *Ding Guanpeng, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty
• *Giuseppe Marchesi, Italian painter active mainly in Bologna
• *Felice Polanzani, Italian engraver
• *Johann Preissler, German engraver
• *Andrea Soldi, Italian portrait painter working in London
• probable – Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period