1774 in art

Events

• Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun becomes a member of the Académie.

Works

Thomas Jones – The Bard

• Thomas Jones – The Bard
• Richard Wilson – Pembroke Town and Castle

Births

• February 17 – Raphaelle Peale, considered the first professional American painter of still-life (died 1825)
• September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, Romantic painter (died 1840)
• Pierre-Narcisse Guérin – French painter (died 1833)
• Gai Qi – poet and painter born in the west of China under the Qing dynasty (died 1829)
• George Chinnery, painter (died 1852)
• William Jennys, American naïve art portrait painter (died 1859)
• Johann Georg Primavesi – German etcher and painter, primarily of landscapes (died 1855)
• Charles Henry Schwanfelder – English animal, landscape and portrait painter (died 1837)
• Marie-Denise Villers – French painter specializing in portraits (died 1821)
• Lisa Erlandsdotter, Swedish artist (died 1854)

Deaths

• January 28 – Antonio Galli Bibiena, Italian architect, also at Vienna Hofburg (born 1700)
• April 11 – Elias Gottlob Haussmann, German painter (born 1695)
• April 23 – Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, German painter (born 1712)
• date unknown
  • Philippe Caffieri, sculptor (born 1714)
  • Anna Morandi Manzolini, sculptor in wax (born 1714)
  • Pierre-Jean Mariette, art collector (born 1694)
  • Simon François Ravenet, French engraver (born 1706)
• probable – Anton Čebej, Slovenian baroque painter (born 1722)