1780 in art
# 1780 in art

Events from the year 1780 in art.

## Works

* Jacques-Louis David
   * Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki
   * Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken
* Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – Les Marionettes polonaises
* Francisco Goya – Christ Crucified
* Francis Holman – The moonlight Battle of Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780
* Jacob More
   * Landscape with Classical Figures, Cicero at his Villa
   * Mount Vesuvius in Eruption: The Last Days of Pompeii
* Sir Joshua Reynolds – The Ladies Waldegrave
* John Trumbull – George Washington
* Francis Wheatley – The Irish House of Commons
* Johann Zoffany
   * Double Portrait of Henry and Mary Styleman (commissioned)
   * Portrait of Tipu Sultan

## Births

* January 10 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter active in England (died 1852)
* February 15 – Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (died 1860)
* February 18 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian genre painter (died 1847)
* April 14 – Edward Hicks, American folk artist (died 1849)
* June 12 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter (died 1847)
* August 8 – Étienne Bouhot, French painter and art teacher (died 1862)
* August 29 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter (died 1867)
* September – Samuel Colman, English painter (died 1845)
* September 15 – Johann Peter Krafft, German-Austrian painter (died 1856)
* October 26 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (died 1850)
* date unknown
   * Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (died 1853)
   * Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (died 1844)
   * Jan Krzysztof Damel, Lithuanian neoclassicist painter (died 1840)

## Deaths

* February 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (born 1724)
* February 21 – Francesco Foschi, Italian landscape painter (born 1710)
* March 3 – Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter (born 1692)
* May 6 – Gaspare Bazzani, Italian painter active in Reggio as a painter of vedute or landscapes (date of birth unknown)
* July 11 – Luis Egidio Meléndez, Spanish still-life painter (born 1716)
* September 6 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter (born 1701)
* September 7 – Pieter Barbiers, Dutch painter (born 1717)
* October 17 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching (born 1720)
* date unknown
   * James Giles, British porcelain decorator (born 1718)
   * Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (born 1750)
* probable
   * Robert Hunter, Irish painter (date of birth unknown)
   * Nicolas Jean Baptiste Poilly, French draftsman and engraver (born 1712)
   * Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1700)
   * Wenceslaus Werlin, Austrian portrait artist (date of birth unknown)
