# 1777 in art

Events from the year 1777 in art.

## Events

* The Cane Tago, a terracotta statue of a dog by Luigi Acquisti, commissioned by an Italian nobleman to commemorate his own pet Weimaraner, is erected in Bologna, Italy.
* The Kunsthochschule Kassel is founded in Germany.
* Det Dramatiske Selskab is founded in Copenhagen (Denmark) as an acting academy.

## Works

* Antonio Carnicero – Portrait of Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes
* Nathaniel Dance-Holland – Portrait of Arthur Murphy
* Thomas Gainsborough
** Portrait of his daughter Mary
** Pomeranian Bitch and Puppy ("Two Fox Dogs" – approximate date)
** The Watering Place
* Francisco Goya – The Parasol (tapestry cartoon – approximate date)
* Jean-Baptiste Greuze – Portrait of Benjamin Franklin
* William Hoare – Portrait of Christopher Anstey with his daughter
* Ozias Humphry – Portrait of George Stubbs
* Philip James de Loutherbourg – Moonlight
* Sir Joshua Reynolds – Portrait of Henry Thrale
* John Francis Rigaud – Agostino Carlini, Francesco Bartolozzi and Giovanni Battista Cipriani
* George Romney – The Gower Family: The Children of Granville, 2nd Earl Gower
* Alexander Roslin – Portraits of
** Ivan Betskoy
** Catherine the Great
** Natalya Golitsyna
** Gustavus III of Sweden
* John Trumbull – Self-portrait
* John Webber – The Tahitian Princess Poedua, the daughter of Orio, Chief of Raiatea

## Births

* January 2 – Christian Daniel Rauch, German sculptor (died 1857)
* January 7 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor (died 1850)
* March 9 – Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire (died 1832)
* March 10 – Louis Hersent, French painter (died 1860)
* March 13 – John Bacon, English sculptor (died 1859)
* June 20 – Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti, Dutch painter working primarily in Paris (died 1843)
* June 22 (bapt.) – John Thirtle, English watercolour painter and frame-maker (died 1839)
* July 23 – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (died 1810)
* August 11 – Giuseppe Bossi, Italian painter, arts administrator and writer on art (died 1815)
* October 15 – Christian David Gebauer, Danish animal painter and etcher (died 1831)
* October 16 – J. L. Lund, Danish painter especially of historical subjects (died 1867)
* November 1 – Per Krafft the Younger, Swedish portrait and historical painter (died 1863)
* December 15 – Agostino Aglio, Italian painter, decorator, and engraver (died 1857)
* December 17 – François Marius Granet, French painter (died 1849)
* date unknown
** George Bullock, English sculptor (died 1818)
** Gustaf Erik Hedman, Finnish painter (died 1841)
** Matthew Cotes Wyatt, English painter and sculptor (died 1862)

## Deaths

* April 29 – Antonio Joli, Italian painter of veduta (born 1700)
* May 21 – John Cleveley the Elder, English marine artist (born 1712)
* June 22 – Johann Joseph Christian, German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver (born 1706)
* July 13 – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, French painter (born 1716)
* August 23 – Charles-Joseph Natoire, French rococo painter (born 1700)
* November 17 - Johan Stålbom, Finnish painter who later lived and worked in Sweden (born 1712)
* December 2 – Lorenzo De Caro, Neapolitan Baroque painter (born 1719)
* December 5 – Claude François Devosge, French sculptor and architect (born 1697)
* date unknown
** Jean Charles Baquoy, French engraver (born 1721)
** Pierre-Charles Canot, French engraver who spent most of his career in England (born 1710)
* probable
** Nicholas Thomas Dall, Danish landscape painter (date of birth unknown)
** Francesco Pavona, Italian painter primarily of pastel portraits (born 1695)