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Events from the year 1774 in art.
Events
- Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun becomes a member of the Académie.
Works
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Thomas Jones – The Bard
- Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Sir William Blackstone
- Anton Graff – Johann Georg Sulzer
- Thomas Jones – The Bard
- Angelica Kauffman – Portrait of Lady Georgiana, Lady Henrietta Frances and George John Spencer, Viscount Althorp
- Sir Joshua Reynolds – Portrait of Charles Coote, Earl of Bellamont, in robes of the Order of the Bath
- Richard Wilson – Pembroke Town and Castle
Births
- January 5 – George Chinnery, painter (died 1852)
- February 17 – Raphaelle Peale, considered the first professional American painter of still-life (died 1825)
- April 18 – Antonio Basoli, Italian painter, interior designer, engraver, and professor (died 1848)
- May 13 – Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, French painter (died 1833)
- June 10 – Carl Haller von Hallerstein, art historian (died 1817)
- August 30 – Henri Van Assche, Belgian painter (died 1841)
- September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, Romantic painter (died 1840)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Balestra, Italian engraver (died 1842)
- William Barnard, English mezzotint engraver (died 1849)
- Lisa Erlandsdotter, Swedish artist (died 1854)
- Jean-Pierre Franque, French historical subjects and portraiture painter (died 1860)
- Gai Qi, poet and painter born in the west of China under the Qing dynasty (died 1829)
- William Jennys, American naïve art portrait painter (died 1859)
- Archer James Oliver, British portrait painter (died 1842)
- Johann Georg Primavesi, German etcher and painter, primarily of landscapes (died 1855)
- Richard Sass, English landscape painter, etcher, and drawing master to royalty (died 1849)
- Charles Henry Schwanfelder, English animal, landscape and portrait painter (died 1837)
- Marie-Denise Villers, French painter specializing in portraits (died 1821)
Deaths
- January 1 – Jan Jerzy Plersch, Polish sculptor of German origin (born 1704/1705)
- January 13 – Shem Drowne, American coppersmith and tinplate worker (born 1683)
- 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)
- May 17 – Jeremiah Theus, Swiss-born American painter, primarily of portraits (born 1716)
- July 9 – Anna Morandi Manzolini, sculptor in wax (born 1714)
- August 26 – Philipp Jakob Straub, Austrian sculptor (born 1706)
- September 10 – Pierre-Jean Mariette, art collector (born 1694)
- October 27 – Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna, Italian quadratura painter (born 1688)
- December 31 – Johann Christoph Handke, Moravian Baroque painter (born 1694)
- date unknown
- probable – Anton Čebej, Slovenian baroque painter (born 1722)