1778 in art

Events

* (unknown)

Paintings

* John Singleton Copley painted "Watson and the Shark".
* Goya painted "Children With a Cart".
* Gilbert Stuart painted a self-portrait.

Births

* February 22 - Rembrandt Peale, American artist (d. 1860)
* Wilhelmina Krafft - Swedish painter and portrait miniaturist (d. 1828)
* John Varley - English watercolour painter and astrologer (d. 1842)
* Beau Brummell - leader of fashion (d. 1840)
* Charles Alexandre Lesueur - artist and explorer (d. 1846)
* Friedrich August von Klinkowström - German artist, author and teacher (d. 1835)
* Reverend John Thomson - minister of Duddingston Kirk near Edinburgh, Scotland and landscape painter (d. 1840)
* Tang Yifen - Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty (d. 1853)

Deaths

* May 20 - Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (b. 1700)
* November 9 - Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (b. 1720)
* John Cobb, English cabinetmaker (b. 1710)
* Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor (b. 1704)
* Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (b. 1703)
* Gaudenzio Botti - Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia (b. 1698)
* Thomas Roberts - Irish landscape painter (b. 1748)
* Simon Mathurin Lantara - French landscape painter (b. 1729)
* Laurent Delvaux - French sculptor (b. 1695)