1773 in art

Events

• 24 April – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1773 opens in London
• 25 July – Francisco Goya marries Josefa Bayeu.
• 25 August – The Salon of 1773 opens at the Louvre in Paris
• Ulrika Pasch elected in to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts

Paintings

• John Singleton Copley – Portrait of Mrs Winslow
• Nathaniel Dance-Holland – Self-Portrait
• François-Hubert Drouais – Portrait of Marie Antoinette
• Dmitry Levitzky – Portraits of the young ladies of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg
• Charles Willson Peale – Family Group portrait
• Sir Joshua Reynolds
• * Portrait of Joseph Banks
• * Portrait of Francesco Bartolozzi
• * Portrait of the Earl of Bute
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• Hubert Robert – The École de Chirurgie Under Construction
• Benjamin West – The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus
• Joseph Wright of Derby – Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent
• Melchior Wyrsch – Reginald Pole Carew
• Joseph-Marie Vien – Saint Louis Handing Over the Regency to His Mother
• Joseph Vernet
• * A Landscape at Sunset
• * ''A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas''

Awards

Births

• January 5 – Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter and drawer
• January 31 – Luigi Pichler, German-Italian artist in engraved gems
• July 7 – Moses Haughton the Younger, English engraver and painter of portrait miniatures
• December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, and memorialist
• December 16 – José Aparicio, Spanish painter of the Neoclassic period date unknown
• * Edward Wedlake Brayley, English enameller, topographer, and writer
• * John Comerford, Irish miniature painter
• * Carl Conjola, German landscape painter
• * Luigi Rados, Italian engraver
• * Naitō Toyomasa, Japanese sculptor of netsuke from Tanba Province

Deaths

• February 15 – Anna Maria Barbara Abesch, Swiss reverse glass painter
• March 1 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect
• March 26 – Johan Ross the Elder, Swedish painter
• April 20 – Hubert-François Gravelot, French illustrator
• July 2 – Dirk van der Burg, Dutch artist, landscape painter and watercolourist
• August 19 – Francesco Zahra, Maltese painter
• August 30 – Nicolau Nasoni, artist and architect
• September 13 – Anton Janša, Slovene beekeeper and painter
• December 4 – Anton Losenko, Ukrainian-Russian Neoclassical painter who specialized in historical subjects and portraits
• December 22 – Georg Friedrich Strass, Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones and the rhinestone date unknown
• * Gerhard Bockman, Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver
• * Thomas-Joachim Hébert, French ébéniste and furniture designer
• * Jakob Klukstad, Norwegian wood carver and painter
• * Antonio Rossi – Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period
• * József Lénárd Wéber, Hungarian sculptor
• * Marcos Zapata, Peruvian Quechua painter