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Events from the year 1785 in art.
Events
- Joseph Wright of Derby holds a one-man exhibition in London, having severed his official connection with the Royal Academy.
Works
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Romney – Emma Hart as a Bacchante
- Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre – Portrait of a Seated Gentleman
- Joseph Duplessis – Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (approximate date)
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Mr and Mrs William Hallett ('The Morning Walk')
- Portrait of Mrs. Sarah Siddons
- Anton Graff – Self-portrait with his family
- Hugh Douglas Hamilton – Lord Edward Stuart
- Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of George Washington
- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard – Self-portrait with two pupils
- Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine – Portrait of Zamor
- Isidro Lorea – Main altarpiece of Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral (carved wood)
- Sir Joshua Reynolds – approximate date
- George Romney – At least two portraits of Emma Hart
- Alexander Roslin – Self Portrait while Painting the King of Sweden
- George Stubbs – Haymakers and Reapers (Tate Britain)
Births
- January 8 – Jan Baptiste de Jonghe, Belgian landscape painter (died 1844)
- April 26 – John James Audubon, Haitian-born American naturalist and painter (died 1851)
- September 1 – José Gil de Castro, Afro-Peruvian painter especially of portraits of Peru's heroes (died c. 1841)
- September 26 – Charles Bird King, American portrait artist who notably paints Native American delegates visiting Washington, D.C. (died 1862)
- October 12 – Henry Thomas Alken, English engraver, illustrator and sporting artist (died 1851)
- October 31 – Georg Friedrich Kersting, German painter of Biedermeier-style interior paintings (died 1847)
- November 18 – David Wilkie, Scottish painter and engraver (died 1841)
- December 1 – Abraham Constantin, Swiss enamel painter (died 1851)
- December 23 – Christian Gobrecht, American engraver (died 1844)
- December 30 – Edouard Pingret, French painter and lithographer (died 1869)
- date unknown
- Pál Balkay, Hungarian painter and teacher (died 1846)
- Daniel Havell, English engraver (died 1822)
- Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter, Flemish historical, landscape and genre painter and engraver (died 1873)
- probable – Bernardo Consorti, Italian line-engraver (died unknown)
Deaths
- January 2 – Andrés de la Calleja, Spanish painter (born 1705)
- April 13 – Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, French historical painter and etcher (born 1700)
- May 8 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (born 1701)
- August 20 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (born 1714)[1]
- October 4 – Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (born 1736)
- October 19 – Hugues Taraval, French painter (born 1729)
- December 14 – Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (born 1727)
- date unknown
- John Hodges Benwell, English genre painter (born 1764; consumption)[2]
- Johannes de Bosch, Dutch painter, engraver and draughtsman (born 1713)
- William Cochran, Scottish painter (born 1738)[3]
- Pietro Gaspari, Italian artist, known for veduta and capriccio in etchings and paintings (born 1720)
- Jacques Fabien Gautier d'Agoty, French painter and printmaker (born 1716)
- José Luzán, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1710)
- Krzysztof Perwanger, Polish sculptor and mayor (born 1700)
References
- ^ Barton, Eleanor Dodge Barton (1976). "Pigalle, Jean Baptiste". In William D. Halsey (ed.). Collier's Encyclopedia. 19. New York: Macmillan Educational Corporation. p. 43.
- ^ "Benwell, John Hodges". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Cochran, William". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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