1776 in art
Events from the year 1776 in art.
Events
- John Robert Cozens sets out on a three-year tour of Switzerland and Italy.
Works
- Nathaniel Dance-Holland – The Dashwoods at West Wycombe Park
- Joseph Duplessis – Portrait of Louis XVI
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard – A Young Girl Reading ''''
- Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Johann Christian Bach
- William Hodges – A View of Cape Stephens in Cook's Straits with Waterspout
- Angelica Kauffman – Armida in Vain Endeavours with Her Entreaties to Prevent Rinaldo's Departure
- Tilly Kettle – The ceremony of a gentoo woman taking leave of her relations and distributing her jewels prior to ascending the funeral pyre of her deceased husband
- Anton Raphael Mengs –
- Sir Joshua Reynolds – Huang Ya Dong
- George Romney – Portrait of Richard Cumberland
- Benjamin West
- * Helen Brought to Paris
- * ''The Sheridan Family''
Births
- February 16 – Abraham Raimbach, English engraver
- March 30 – Vasily Andreevich Tropinin, Russian painter
- April 2 – John Higton, English animal painter
- April 13 – Félix Boisselier, French historical painter
- June 11 – John Constable, English romantic landscape painter
- June 12 – Pierre Révoil, French painter
- June 29 – František Horčička, Czech history and portrait painter
- August 9 – Jacob Munch, Norwegian painter and military officer
- August 14 – Christian Friedrich Tieck, German sculptor
- August 15 – Gottlieb Schick, German Neoclassical portrait painter
- August 16 – Amalia von Helvig, German and Swedish artist, writer, translator and intellectual
- October 8 – Pieter van Os, Dutch painter and engraver
- October 18 – John Vanderlyn, American Neoclassical painter
- November 5 – Abraham Teerlink, Dutch painter
- December 26 – Charles Hamilton Smith, Flemish-born English illustrator and soldier date unknown
- * Élise Bruyère, French painter specializing in portraits and floral still lifes
- * Alexei Yegorov, Russian painter
- * Jan Mooy, Dutch marine art painter
- * Carlo Restallino, Italian painter and engraver
- * Gustava Johanna Stenborg, Swedish textile artist
Deaths
- February 2 – Francis Hayman, painter and illustrator
- March 4 - Johann Georg Ziesenis, German-Danish portrait painter
- March 18 – Gerard Vandergucht, English born engraver and art dealer
- April 1 – Gaetano Lapis, Italian painter
- May 4 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor
- July 29 – Charles Francois Hutin, French history and figure painter, engraver and sculptor
- August – Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, painter
- September 22 – Giuseppe Peroni, Italian painter of frescoes date unknown
- * Vittorio Bigari, Italian painter
- * Angelica Le Gru Perotti, Italian painter
- * Thomas Pingo, medallist and engraver
- * Ike no Taiga, Japanese painter and calligrapher
- * Mattheus Verheyden, Dutch painter