1775 in art
Events from the year 1775 in art.
Events
- 25 August – The Salon of 1775 opens at the Louvre in Paris
- Nathaniel Hone the Elder courts controversy when his satirical painting is seen to ridicule Sir Joshua Reynolds and attack the English fashion for copying Italian Renaissance painting, and is rejected by the Royal Academy of Arts. To show his reputation is undamaged, Hone organises a one-man retrospective in St Martin's Lane, London - the first such solo exhibition of an artist’s work.
- Josiah Wedgwood introduces jasperware pottery in England, commissioning designs from John Flaxman.
- Construction of the Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, the modern-day National Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania.
Paintings
- David Allan – Portrait of Sir William Hamilton
- Étienne Aubry
- * Paternal Love
- * Portrait of Noël Hallé
- Nathaniel Dance-Holland – Portrait of James Cook
- François-Hubert Drouais – Portrait of Maria Theresa of Savoy
- Joseph Duplessis – Portrait of Christoph Willibald von Gluck
- Jean-Baptiste André Gautier-Dagoty – Portrait of Marie Antoinette
- Marie-Suzanne Giroust – Self-portrait with an image of Maurice Quentin de La Tour
- Anton Graff – Sophie Friederike Hensel
- Nathaniel Hone the Elder – The Conjuror
- Nicolas Bernard Lépicié – The Interior of a Customs House
- William Marlow – Whitehall
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
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- Alexander Roslin – Portrait of Carl von Linné
- Joseph-Marie Vien – ''Venus, Wounded by Diomedes, Is Saved by Iris''
Births
- February 3 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general, painter and lithographer
- February 18 – Thomas Girtin, English painter and etcher
- March 4 – Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger, Austrian portrait painter
- March 24 – Pauline Auzou, French painter
- April 21 – Alexander Anderson, illustrator
- April 23 – J. M. W. Turner, English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker
- July 1 – Cephas Thompson, portrait painter
- July 5 – William Crotch, musician and painter
- July 15 – Sir Richard Westmacott, sculptor
- September 16 – Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar, Dutch engraver
- October 18 – John Vanderlyn, neoclassical painter
- October 31 – Antonín Machek, Czech painter
- December 29 – Thomas Heaphy, English water-colour and portrait painter
- date unknown
- *Nathan Cooper Branwhite, English miniature portrait painter, watercolourist and engraver
- *Amelia Curran, Irish painter
- *Francis Engleheart, English engraver
Deaths
- January 8 – John Baskerville, typographer and craftsman
- March 17 – Carlo Carlone, Italian painter
- April 10 – Jonas Haas, German-born Danish engraver
- May 18 – Johann Joachim Kändler, German modeller of Meissen porcelain in a rococo style
- June 27 – Ignaz Günther, German sculptor and woodcarver within the Bavarian rococo tradition
- July 8 – Peder Als, Danish historical and portrait painter
- July 21 – Szymon Czechowicz, Polish painter
- August 29 – Francesco Sleter, Italian painter active in England
- September 24 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter
- October 21 – François-Hubert Drouais, French painter
- October 26 – Pierre-Edmé Babel, French engraver
- November 10 – Edme Dumont, French sculptor
- December 8 – Josef Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter
- December 20 – Sigismund Streit, German merchant and patron of the arts
- date unknown
- * Jan George Freezen, German portrait painter
- * Johan Graham, painter from London active in The Hague and Amsterdam
- probable – Mina Kolokolnikov, Russian painter and teacher