1780 in art

• 1 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1780 opens in London, the first to be held at the Academy's new headquarters at Somerset House ==Works==

's entry work for the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando • Antoine-François Callet – Portrait of the Comte de Vergennes • John Singleton Copley – Portrait of Hugh Montgomerie • Jacques-Louis David • Portrait of Count Stanislas Potocki • Saint Roch Interceding with the Virgin for the Plague-Stricken • Thomas Gainsborough • Portrait of Henry Seymour Conway • Portrait of Jeffery Amherst • Philip James de Loutherbourg – Warley Camp • Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – Les Marionettes polonaises • Francisco Goya – Christ Crucified • Francis Holman – The moonlight Battle of Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780 • Jacob More • Landscape with Classical Figures, Cicero at his Villa • Mount Vesuvius in Eruption: The Last Days of Pompeii • Joshua Reynolds • Portrait of Sir William Chambers • Self-Portrait • George Romney – Portrait of James Macpherson • John Trumbull – George Washington • Francis Wheatley – The Irish House of Commons • Johann Zoffany • Double Portrait of Henry and Mary Styleman (commissioned) • Portrait of Tipu Sultan ==Births==

• January 10 – Pieter Christoffel Wonder, Dutch painter active in England (died 1852) • February 15 – Alfred Edward Chalon, Swiss portrait painter (died 1860) • February 18 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian genre painter (died 1847) • April 14 – Edward Hicks, American folk artist (died 1849) • June 12 – Henry Hoppner Meyer, English portrait painter (died 1847) • August 8 – Étienne Bouhot, French painter and art teacher (died 1862) • August 29 – Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter (died 1867) • September – Samuel Colman, English painter (died 1845) • September 15 – Johann Peter Krafft, German-Austrian painter (died 1856) • October 26 – Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard, French painter and sculptor in the troubadour style (died 1850) • date unknown • Johann Adam Ackermann, German landscape painter (died 1853) • Giovacchino Cantini, Italian engraver (died 1844) • Jan Krzysztof Damel, Lithuanian neoclassicist painter (died 1840) ==Deaths==

• February 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (born 1724) • February 21 – Francesco Foschi, Italian landscape painter (born 1710) • March 3 – Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter (born 1692) • May 6 – Gaspare Bazzani, Italian painter active in Reggio as a painter of vedute or landscapes (date of birth unknown) • July 11 – Luis Egidio Meléndez, Spanish still-life painter (born 1716) • September 6 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter (born 1701) • September 7 – Pieter Barbiers, Dutch painter (born 1717) • October 17 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching (born 1720) • date unknown • James Giles, British porcelain decorator (born 1718) • Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (born 1750) • probable • Robert Hunter, Irish painter (date of birth unknown) • Nicolas Jean Baptiste Poilly, French draftsman and engraver (born 1712) • Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1700) • Wenceslaus Werlin, Austrian portrait artist (date of birth unknown) == References ==