1771 in art

• Limoges porcelain manufacture established in France. • 24 April – Royal Academy Exhibition of 1771 opens in Pall Mall in London • 25 August – The Salon of 1771 opens at the Louvre in Paris ==Works==

• Cristóbal de Aguilar – Manuel de Amat y Junient as Protector of the Monastery of the Nazarene • Étienne Aubry – Portrait of Louis-Claude Vassé • Pompeo Batoni – The Continence of Scipio • Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – Self-portrait in spectacles (pastel) • Louis-Bernard Coclers – Interior of a Foundry • John Singleton Copley • Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) • Ezekiel Goldthwait and Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait (Elizabeth Lewis) (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) • Portrait of John Montresor • Nathaniel Dance-Holland – David Garrick as Richard III at Bosworth • Jacques-Louis David – Minerva Fighting Mars (Combat de Mars contre Minerve) • Anton Graff • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing • Moses Mendelssohn • Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of Diderot • John Hamilton Mortimer – Combined portrait of Dr Daniel Solander, Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, Dr John Hawkesworth and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich • Alexander Roslin – King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers • Samuel Scott – The Thames and the Tower of London • Claude Joseph Vernet – Seaport by Moonlight • Francis Wheatley – Scene from Twelfth Night • Richard Wilson • Dinas Bran from Llangollen • View near Wynnstay • Joseph Wright of Derby • The Alchymist, in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone, Discovers Phosphorus, and prays for the successful conclusion of his operation, as was the custom of the Ancient Chymical Astrologers (original version) • ''The Blacksmith's Shop'' (two versions) • Johan Zoffany – Portrait of George III ==Births==

• March 16 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (died 1835) • April 13 – Jakob Wilhelm Roux, German draughtsman and painter (died 1830) • May 2 – John Henning, Scottish sculptor and medallist (died 1851) • May 14 – Thomas Wedgwood, pioneer photographer (died 1805) • November 6 • Alois Senefelder, inventor of lithography (died 1834) • Jovan Pačić, Serbian painter and poet (died 1849) • November 20 – Bartolomeo Pinelli, Italian illustrator and engraver (died 1835) • December 16 – Jean Broc, painter (died 1850) • date unknown • Nikolai Ivanovich Argunov, painter and academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (died 1829) • John Heaviside Clark, Scottish aquatint engraver and painter of seascapes and landscapes (died 1863) • Samuel Elmgren, Finnish painter (died 1834) • John Eyre, Australian painter and engraver (died 1812) • William Armfield Hobday, English portrait painter and miniaturist (died 1831) • Thomas Richmond, English miniature-painter (died 1837) • Kazimierz Wojniakowski, Polish painter (died 1812) ==Deaths==

• March 8 – Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (born 1688) • March 20 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (born 1707) • April 14 – Laurent Cars, French designer and engraver (born 1699) • May 11 – Franz Edmund Weirotter, Austrian landscape painter (born 1733) • September 9 – Robert Wood, British engraver gentleman and politician (born 1717) • September 14 – Louis de Moni, Dutch genre painter (born 1698) • date unknown • John Baker, English flower painter (born 1726) • George Bickham the Younger, English etcher, engraver, printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists (born 1706) • Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain, French engraver (born 1710) • Charles Exshaw, Irish painter and engraver (born unknown) • Johan Georg Geitel, Finnish painter (born 1683) • Ding Guanpeng, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (date of birth unknown) • Giuseppe Marchesi, Italian painter active mainly in Bologna (born 1699) • Felice Polanzani, Italian engraver (born 1700) • Johann Preissler, German engraver (born 1698) • Andrea Soldi, Italian portrait painter working in London (born 1703) • probable – Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (born 1720) ==References==