1774 in art
Events from the year 1774 in art.
Events
- Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun becomes a member of the Académie.
Works
- Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Sir William Blackstone
- Anton Graff – Johann Georg Sulzer
- William Hamilton – King Edgar's First Interview with Queen Elfrida
- Thomas Jones – The Bard
- Angelica Kauffman – Portrait of Lady Georgiana, Lady Henrietta Frances and George John Spencer, Viscount Althorp
- Anton Raphael Mengs – Self-Portrait
- Joshua Reynolds – Portrait of the Earl of Bellamont
- Alexander Roslin – Portrait of Joseph Marie Terray
- Claude-Joseph Vernet
- * The Approach to a Fair
- * Constructing a Main Road
- Richard Wilson
- * Falls of Niagara
- * ''Llyn-y-Cau, Cader Idris''
Births
- January 5 – George Chinnery, English painter working in Asia
- February 17 – Raphaelle Peale, considered the first professional American painter of still-life
- April 18 – Antonio Basoli, Italian painter, interior designer, engraver and professor
- May 13 – Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, French painter
- June 10 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, German art historian
- August 30 – Henri Van Assche, Belgian painter
- September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, German Romantic painter date unknown
- * Giovanni Balestra, Italian engraver
- * William Barnard, English mezzotint engraver
- * Lisa Erlandsdotter, Swedish artist
- * Jean-Pierre Franque, French historical subjects and portraiture painter
- * Gai Qi, poet and painter born in the west of China under the Qing dynasty
- * William Jennys, American naïve art portrait painter
- * Archer James Oliver, British portrait painter
- * Johann Georg Primavesi, German etcher and painter, primarily of landscapes
- * Richard Sass, English landscape painter, etcher, and drawing master to royalty
- * Charles Henry Schwanfelder, English animal, landscape and portrait painter
- * Marie-Denise Villers, French painter specializing in portraits
Deaths
- January 1 – Jan Jerzy Plersch, Polish sculptor of German origin
- January 13 – Shem Drowne, American coppersmith and tinplate worker
- January 28 – Antonio Galli Bibiena, Italian architect, also at Vienna Hofburg
- April 11 – Elias Gottlob Haussmann, German painter
- April 23 – Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter
- May 17 – Jeremiah Theus, Swiss-born American painter, primarily of portraits
- July 9 – Anna Morandi Manzolini, Italian sculptor in wax
- August 26 – Philipp Jakob Straub, Austrian sculptor
- September 10 – Pierre-Jean Mariette, French art collector
- October 27 – Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna, Italian quadratura painter
- December 31 – Johann Christoph Handke, Moravian Baroque painter date unknown
- * Marie-Elisabeth Simons, Belgian painter
- * Philippe Caffieri, French sculptor
- * Simon François Ravenet, French engraver probable – Anton Čebej, Slovenian baroque painter