1794 in art

Events

• English painter Thomas Birch comes to the United States to assist his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings entitled Birch's Views of Philadelphia, eventually published in 1799.

Works

• Martin Archer Shee – Self-Portrait
• William Blake – The Ancient of Days
• Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Triumph of Marat
• Mather Brown – Lord Howe on the Deck of the Queen Charlotte
• Giuseppe Ceracchi – Alexander Hamilton
• John Singleton Copley – Admiral of the Fleet Howe
• Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – The Hanging of Traitors in Effigy
• Johann Friedrich Dryander
• * Portrait du citoyen Laboucly, inspecteur de la viande
• * Portrait de Dominique Joseph Garat
• * Portrait du général Jourdan et de son adjutant
• John Flaxman – The Fury of Athamas
• William Hamilton – Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution
• Anton Hickel – Portrait of Charles James Fox
• Jean-François Hue – View of the Port of Brest
• Thomas Jones – Classical Landscape with a River
• Angelica Kauffman
• * Portrait of the Impromptu Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca
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• Thomas Lawrence
• * Catherine Rebecca Gray, Lady Manners
• * Portrait of a Young Lady, known as Pinkie
• Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Grand Attack on Valenciennes
• Jean-Baptiste Regnault – La Liberté ou la Mort
• Gilbert Stuart
• * Portrait of Henry Cruger
• * Portrait of Horatio Gates
• * Portrait of John Jay
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• Benjamin West – Gentlemen Fishing
• Johann Zoffany – ''Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris''

Births

• March 26 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter
• May 13 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter
• June 3 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits
• June 23 – Franz Nadorp, German painter who primarily worked and lived in Rome
• July 24 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor
• August 29 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter
• September 17 – Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter
• September 30 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter
• October – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner
• October 19 – Charles Robert Leslie, English genre painter
• November 19 – James Stark, English painter
• December 31 – Samuel Jackson, English watercolour and oil painter date unknown
• * Ferdinand Deppe, German naturalist, explorer and painter
• * Abel Dimier, French sculptor
• * Joseph Patrick Haverty, Irish painter
• * William Heath, English satirical engraver
• * Jan Feliks Piwarski, Polish painter and professor of art
• * Johannes Baptista van Acker, Flemish portrait miniature painter

Deaths

• April 4 – Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, Dutch landscape painter
• April 14 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter
• May 13 – Pierre-François Brice, Belgian painter
• June 11 - Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, German portrait painter
• June 24 – Rosalie Filleul, French painter
• August 11 - Christian Ulrik Foltmar, Danish wallpaper weaver, painter of miniatures and organist
• October – Jean Humbert, Dutch portrait painter
• December 11 – Étienne Ficquet, French engraver date unknown
• * Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter
• * François Boch, ceramicist, co-founder of Villeroy & Boch
• * Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter
• * Philippe Curtius, wax modeller
• * Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher
• * Jacopo Marieschi, Italian vedute painter