1777 in art

Events

• 25 August – The Salon of 1777 opens at the Louvre in Paris
• The Cane Tago, a terracotta statue of a dog by Luigi Acquisti, commissioned by an Italian nobleman to commemorate his own pet Weimaraner, is erected in Bologna, Italy.
• The Kunsthochschule Kassel is founded in Germany.
• Det Dramatiske Selskab is founded in Copenhagen as an acting academy.

Works

• Antonio Carnicero – Portrait of Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes
• John Singleton Copley – The Copley Family
• Nathaniel Dance-Holland – Portrait of Arthur Murphy
• Thomas Gainsborough
• * Portrait of Mary Gainsborough
• * '
• * The Watering Place
• Francisco Goya – The Parasol
• Jean-Baptiste Greuze – Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
• William Hoare – Portrait of Christopher Anstey with his daughter
• Ozias Humphry – Portrait of George Stubbs
• Philip James de Loutherbourg – Moonlight
• Joshua Reynolds
• * A Fortune-Teller
• * Portrait of Lady Bampfylde
• * Portrait of Henry Thrale
• John Francis Rigaud – Agostino Carlini, Francesco Bartolozzi and Giovanni Battista Cipriani
• George Romney – '
• Alexander Roslin – Portraits of
• * Ivan Betskoy
• * Catherine the Great
• * Natalya Golitsyna
• * Gustavus III of Sweden
• John Trumbull – Self-portrait
• John Webber – ''The Tahitian Princess Poedua, the daughter of Orio, Chief of Raiatea''

Births

• January 2 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor
• January 7 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor
• March 9 – Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire
• March 10 – Louis Hersent, French painter
• March 13 – John Bacon, English sculptor
• June 20 – Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris
• June 22 – John Thirtle, English watercolour painter and frame-maker
• July 23 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter
• August 11 – Giuseppe Bossi, Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art
• October 15 – Christian David Gebauer, Danish animal painter and etcher
• October 16 – J. L. Lund, Danish painter especially of historical subjects
• November 1 – Per Krafft the Younger, Swedish portrait and historical painter
• December 15 – Agostino Aglio, Italian painter, decorator, and engraver
• December 17 – François Marius Granet, French painter date unknown
• * George Bullock, English sculptor
• * Gustaf Erik Hedman, Finnish painter
• * Matthew Cotes Wyatt, English painter and sculptor

Deaths

• April 29 – Antonio Joli, Italian painter of veduta
• May 21 – John Cleveley the Elder, English marine artist
• June 22 – Johann Joseph Christian, German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver
• July 13 – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, French painter
• August 23 – Charles-Joseph Natoire, French rococo painter
• November 17 - Johan Stålbom, Finnish painter who later lived and worked in Sweden
• December 2 – Lorenzo De Caro, Neapolitan Baroque painter
• December 5 – Claude François Devosge, French sculptor and architect date unknown
• * Jean Charles Baquoy, French engraver
• * Pierre-Charles Canot, French engraver who spent most of his career in England probable
• * Nicholas Thomas Dall, Danish landscape painter
• * Francesco Pavona, Italian painter primarily of pastel portraits