# 1794 in art

Events from the year 1794 in art.

## Events

* English painter Thomas Birch comes to the United States to assist his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings entitled Birch's Views of Philadelphia, eventually published in 1799.

## Works

* William Blake – The Ancient of Days
* Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Triumph of Marat
* Mather Brown – Lord Howe on the Deck of the Queen Charlotte
* Giuseppe Ceracchi – Alexander Hamilton (marble portrait bust)
* John Singleton Copley – Admiral of the Fleet Howe
* Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – The Hanging of Traitors in Effigy
* Johann Friedrich Dryander
** Portrait du citoyen Laboucly, inspecteur de la viande
** Portrait de Dominique Joseph Garat
** Portrait du général Jourdan et de son adjutant
* John Flaxman – The Fury of Athamas (marble group; completed)
* Thomas Jones – Classical Landscape with a River
* Angelica Kauffman
** Portrait of the Impromptu Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca
** Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting
* Thomas Lawrence
** Catherine Rebecca Gray, Lady Manners
** Portrait of a Young Lady, known as Pinkie
* Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Grand Attack on Valenciennes
* Jean-Baptiste Regnault – La Liberté ou la Mort ("Liberty or Death"; original lost)
* Gilbert Stuart
** Portrait of Henry Cruger
** Portrait of Horatio Gates
** Portrait of John Jay
* George Stubbs – Baronet, with Samuel Chifney
* Johann Zoffany – Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris

## Births

* March 26 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (died 1872)
* May 13 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter (died 1835)
* June 3 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (died 1860)
* June 23 – Franz Nadorp, German painter who primarily worked and lived in Rome (died 1876)
* July 24 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (died 1865)
* August 29 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (died 1880)
* September 17 – Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter (died 1840)
* September 30 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter (died 1854)
* October – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (died 1847)
* October 19 – Charles Robert Leslie, English genre painter (died 1859)
* November 19 – James Stark, English painter (died 1859)
* December 31 – Samuel Jackson, English watercolour and oil painter (died 1869)
* date unknown
** Ferdinand Deppe, German naturalist, explorer and painter (died 1861)
** Abel Dimier, French sculptor (died 1864)
** Joseph Patrick Haverty, Irish painter (died 1864)
** William Heath, English satirical engraver (died 1840)
** Jan Feliks Piwarski, Polish painter and professor of art (died 1859)
** Johannes Baptista van Acker, Flemish portrait miniature painter (died 1863)

## Deaths

* April 4 – Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, Dutch landscape painter (born 1737)
* April 14 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter (born 1733)
* May 13 – Pierre-François Brice, Belgian painter (born 1714)
* June 11 - Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, German portrait painter (born 1725)
* June 24 – Rosalie Filleul, French painter (born 1752)
* August 11 - Christian Ulrik Foltmar, Danish wallpaper weaver, painter of miniatures and organist (born 1716)
* October – Jean Humbert, Dutch portrait painter (born 1734)
* December 11 – Étienne Ficquet, French engraver (born 1719)
* date unknown
** Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter (born 1762)
** François Boch, ceramicist, co-founder of Villeroy & Boch (born 1695)
** Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (born 1730/1732)
** Philippe Curtius, wax modeller (born 1737)
** Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher (born 1723)
** Jacopo Marieschi, Italian vedute painter (born 1711)