1776 in art

Events

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Works

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Births

* June 11 - John Constable, English romantic painter (d. 1837)
* October 18 - John Vanderlyn, U.S. neoclassicist painter (d. 1852)
* Abraham Raimbach - engraver (d. 1843)
* Vasily Andreevich Tropinin - painter (d. 1857)

Deaths

*February 2 - Francis Hayman, painter and illustrator (b. 1708)
*May 4 - Jacques Saly, French sculptor (b. 1717)
* Angelica Le Gru Perotti, Italian woman painter of the Rococo (b. 1719)
* Ike no Taiga - Japanese painter and calligrapher (b. 1723)
* Vittorio Bigari - Italian painter of the late-Baroque (b. 1692)
* Gaetano Lapis - Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (b. 1704)
* Giuseppe Peroni - Italian painter of frescoes (b. 1700)