1795 in art
Events from the year 1795 in art.
Events
- Nicolas-Jacques Conté patents the modern pencil 'lead' in France and produces the first Conté sticks.
Works
- William Blake's monotypes Nebuchadnezzar, Newton, The Night of Enitharmon's Joy and Pity.
- Giuseppe Ceracchi's marble portrait bust of George Washington
- Jacques-Louis David – Portrait of Jacobus Blauw
- Anton Hickel's The House of Commons, 1793–94
- François-Xavier Fabre's Portrait of Lord Holland.
- François Gérard's portrait of fellow-artist Jean-Baptiste Isabey with his daughter.
- Francisco Goya's Self-portrait in the studio.
- Guillaume Guillon-Lethière's painting The Death of Cato of Utica
- John Hoppner
- * Portrait of Arthur Wellesley
- * Portrait of the Frankland sisters.
- Philip James de Loutherbourg's painting Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June.
- William Marlow – Capriccio: St Paul's and a Venetian Canal
- Henry Singleton – The Royal Academicians in General Assembly
- Benjamin West – ''Musidora and Her Two Companions''
Births
- February 10 – Ary Scheffer, French painter of Dutch extraction
- May 3 – Richard James Wyatt, English sculptor
- May 7 – William Fox-Strangways, English diplomat and art collector
- June 23 – William Wyon, English chief engraver at the Royal Mint
- July 11 – Amasa Hewins, American portrait, genre, and landscape painter
- September 12 – John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, sign maker and coachman
- October 20 – William Bewick, English portrait painter
- date unknown
- *William Behnes, English sculptor
- *1795-1798: Stephen Poyntz Denning, English portraitist, artist and curator
Deaths
- January 3 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter
- January 13 – John Hickey, Irish-born sculptor
- June 12 – Johann Christian Brand, Austrian painter
- June 23 – Alexei Antropov, Russian barocco painter
- August 4 – Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Spanish painter in the Neoclassic style, primarily of religious and historical themes
- August 31 – Maruyama Ōkyo, Japanese painter
- October 6 - Johann Anton de Peters, German painter and etcher
- November 15 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French portrait painter
- November 18 – Antonio Cavallucci, Italian painter of the late Baroque
- December 1 – Antonio Zucchi, Italian painter of the Neoclassic period
- December 8 – Giovanni Battista Casanova, Italian painter and printmaker
- December 25 – John Alefounder, English portrait and miniature painter
- date unknown
- *Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, French sculptor in the neoclassical style
- *Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Italian art biographer and painter of the late-Baroque period
- *Francesco Sozzi, Italian painter
- *Paul Theodor van Brussel, Dutch flower painter