1786 in art
Events from the year 1786 in art.
Events
- November – Boydell Shakespeare Gallery inaugurated in London.
- Francisco Goya is appointed court painter to King Charles III of Spain.
Works
- Mather Brown
- * Portrait of Charles Bulfinch
- * Portrait of Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Gainsborough –
- Anne-Louis Girodet – Coriolanus Taking Leave of His Family
- Ozias Humphry – Portrait of Hyder Beg Khan
- James Northcote – The Murder of the Princes in the Tower
- Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
- * Mademoiselle Sophie
- * Self-portrait in a Turban with Julie
- Jean-Laurent Mosnier – Self-portrait
- Nagasawa Rosetsu
- * Tiger Fusuma
- * Dragon Fusuma
- Joshua Reynolds
- * Admiral Sir Edward Hughes
- * Dr. John Hunter seated in his museum
- John Trumbull
- * The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17, 1775
- * The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775
- Benjamin West – Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag
- Francis Wheatley – The Sailor's Return
- Johann Zoffany – ''Colonel Antoine Polier, Claud Martin and John Wombwell with the Artist''
Births
- January 26 – Benjamin Haydon, English historical painter and writer
- April 1 – William Mulready, Irish genre painter of rural scenes
- April 16 – Albrecht Adam, painter
- June 3 – Kim Jeong-hui, calligrapher, epigraphist, and scholar of Korea's later Joseon period
- July 5 – Charles Alfred Stothard, historical draughtsman
- July 9 – Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor
- August 8 – Bengt Erland Fogelberg, Swedish sculptor
- August 28 – Ferdinand Piloty, lithographer
- September 28 – Johann Michael Sattler, Austrian portrait and landscape painter
- October 10 – François-Édouard Picot, French historic painter
- November 23 – FrantiÅ¡ek TkadlÃk, Czech painter date unknown
- * Jean Alaux, French history painter and Director of the French Academy in Rome
- * Julien-Honoré-Germain d'Aubuisson, French portrait and miniature painter
- * Georgije Bakalović, Serbian painter
- * Eugénie Honorée Marguerite Charen, French painter
- * Jean Augustin Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter
- * William Derby, English miniature painter and copyist
- * John Fischer, German portrait, miniature, and landscape painter
- * James Frothingham, American painter
- * Kunisada, Japanese designer of ukiyo-e woodblock prints
- * Abraham Wivell, British portrait painter, writer and pioneer of fire protection probable
- *John Hayes, British portrait-painter
Deaths
- January 8 – Johan Edvard Mandelberg, Swedish-born painter
- January 12 – Claude-Henri Watelet, French fermier-général, amateur painter and writer on the arts
- February 6 – Samuel Wale, English historical painter and book illustrator
- February 17 – Thomas Beckwith, English painter, genealogist and antiquary
- March 6 – Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV of France
- March 18 – Jacob Bonneau, Anglo-French painter
- April 12 – Francesco Saverio Mergalo, Italian portrait painter
- April 23 – Alexander Cozens, British landscape-painter in water-colours and teacher of painting
- May 4 – Johann Kaspar Füssli, Swiss painter
- June 21 – George Hepplewhite, English furniture designer
- July 14 – John Collier, English caricaturist and satirist
- October 17 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss landscape painter and etcher
- October 30 – William Duesbury, British enameller and entrepreneur date unknown
- * Andrea-Salvatore Aglio, Italian sculptor and painter on marble
- * Johann Karl Auerbach, Austrian painter
- * Tilly Kettle, portrait painter