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