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Overview of the events of 1775 in art
Events from the year 1775 in art .
Events
Paintings
John Trumbull ,
The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill , 1775
Births
February 3 –
Louis-François, Baron Lejeune ,
French
general , painter and
lithographer (died
1848 )
February 18 –
Thomas Girtin , English painter and etcher (died
1802 )
March 4 –
Johann Baptist von Lampi the Younger , Austrian portrait painter (died
1837 )
March 24 –
Pauline Auzou ,
French painter (died
1835 )
April 21 –
Alexander Anderson , illustrator (died
1870 )
April 23 –
J. M. W. Turner ,
English
Romantic landscape painter,
watercolourist and
printmaker (died
1851 )
July 1 –
Cephas Thompson , portrait painter (died
1856 )
July 5 –
William Crotch , musician and painter (died
1847 )
July 15 –
Sir Richard Westmacott , sculptor (died
1856 )
September 16 –
Ernst Willem Jan Bagelaar , Dutch engraver (died
1837 )
October 18 –
John Vanderlyn , neoclassical painter (died
1852 )
October 31 –
Antonín Machek , Czech painter (died
1844 )
December 29 –
Thomas Heaphy , English water-colour and portrait painter (died
1835 )
date unknown
Deaths
Szymon Czechowicz – Self-portrait, 1775
January 8 –
John Baskerville , typographer and craftsman (born
1707 )
March 17 –
Carlo Carlone ,
Italian painter (born
1686 )
April 10 –
Jonas Haas , German-born Danish engraver (born
1720 )
May 18 –
Johann Joachim Kändler ,
German modeller of
Meissen porcelain in a
rococo style (born
1706 )
June 27 –
Ignaz Günther , German
sculptor and
woodcarver within the
Bavarian
rococo tradition (born
1725 )
July 8 –
Peder Als , Danish historical and portrait painter (born
1725 )
July 21 –
Szymon Czechowicz , Polish painter (born
1689 )
August 29 –
Francesco Sleter , Italian painter active in England (born
1685 )
September 24 –
Emanuel Büchel , Swiss painter (born
1705 )
October 21 –
François-Hubert Drouais ,
French painter (born
1727 )
October 26 –
Pierre-Edmé Babel , French engraver (born
1720 )
November 10 –
Edme Dumont , French sculptor (born
1720 )
December 8 –
Josef Ignaz Mildorfer , Austrian painter (born
1719 )
December 20 –
Sigismund Streit , German merchant and patron of the arts (born
1687 )
date unknown
probable –
Mina Kolokolnikov ,
Russian
painter and teacher (born
1708 )