# 1771 in art

Events from the year 1771 in art.

## Events

* Limoges porcelain manufacture established in France.
* 24 April – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1771 opens in Pall Mall in London

## Works

* Cristóbal de Aguilar – Manuel de Amat y Junient as Protector of the Monastery of the Nazarene
* Pompeo Batoni – The Continence of Scipio
* Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – Self-portrait in spectacles (pastel)
* Louis-Bernard Coclers – Interior of a Foundry
* John Singleton Copley
** Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
** Ezekiel Goldthwait and Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait (Elizabeth Lewis) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
* Nathaniel Dance-Holland – David Garrick as Richard III at Bosworth
* Jacques-Louis David – Minerva Fighting Mars (Combat de Mars contre Minerve)
* Anton Graff
** Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
** Moses Mendelssohn
* Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of Diderot
* John Hamilton Mortimer – Combined portrait of Dr Daniel Solander, Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, Dr John Hawkesworth and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich
* Alexander Roslin – King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers
* Claude Joseph Vernet – Clair de lune ("moonlight")
* Francis Wheatley – Scene from Twelfth Night
* Joseph Wright of Derby
** The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful conclusion of his operation, as was the custom of the Ancient Chymical Astrologers (original version)
** The Blacksmith's Shop (two versions)

## Births

* March 16 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (died 1835)
* April 13 – Jakob Wilhelm Roux, German draughtsman and painter (died 1830)
* May 2 – John Henning, Scottish sculptor and medallist (died 1851)
* May 14 – Thomas Wedgwood, pioneer photographer (died 1805)
* November 6
** Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography (died 1834)
** Jovan Pačić, Serbian painter and poet (died 1849)
* November 20 – Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (died 1835)
* December 16 – Jean Broc, painter (died 1850)
* date unknown
** Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, painter and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (died 1829)
** John Heaviside Clark, Scottish aquatint engraver and painter of seascapes and landscapes (died 1863)
** Samuel Elmgren, Finnish painter (died 1834)
** John Eyre, Australian painter and engraver (died 1812)
** William Armfield Hobday, English portrait painter and miniaturist (died 1831)
** Thomas Richmond, English miniature-painter (died 1837)
** Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter (died 1812)

## Deaths

* March 8 – Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (born 1688)
* March 20 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (born 1707)
* April 14 – Laurent Cars, French designer and engraver (born 1699)
* May 11 – Franz Edmund Weirotter, Austrian landscape painter (born 1733)
* September 9 – Robert Wood, British engraver gentleman and politician (born 1717)
* September 14 – Louis de Moni, Dutch genre painter (born 1698)
* date unknown
** John Baker, English flower painter (born 1726)
** George Bickham the Younger, English etcher, engraver, printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists (born 1706)
** Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain, French engraver (born 1710)
** Charles Exshaw, Irish painter and engraver (born unknown)
** Johan Georg Geitel, Finnish painter (born 1683)
** Ding Guanpeng, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (date of birth unknown)
** Giuseppe Marchesi, Italian painter active mainly in Bologna (born 1699)
** Felice Polanzani, Italian engraver (born 1700)
** Johann Preissler, German engraver (born 1698)
** Andrea Soldi, Italian portrait painter working in London (born 1703)
* probable – Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (born 1720)