1794 in art

• English painter Thomas Birch comes to the United States to assist his artist father, William Birch, in preparing a 29-plate collection of engravings entitled ''Birch's Views of Philadelphia'', eventually published in 1799. ==Works==

- The Ancient of Days (1794), watercolour etching • Martin Archer Shee – Self-Portrait • William Blake – The Ancient of Days • Louis-Léopold Boilly – The Triumph of Marat • Mather Brown – Lord Howe on the Deck of the Queen Charlotte • Giuseppe Ceracchi – Alexander Hamilton (marble portrait bust) • John Singleton Copley – Admiral of the Fleet Howe • Jean-Pierre Norblin de La Gourdaine – The Hanging of Traitors in Effigy • Johann Friedrich Dryander • Portrait du citoyen Laboucly, inspecteur de la viande • Portrait de Dominique Joseph Garat • Portrait du général Jourdan et de son adjutant • John Flaxman – The Fury of Athamas (marble group; completed) • William Hamilton – Marie Antoinette Being Taken to Her Execution • Anton Hickel – Portrait of Charles James Fox • Jean-François Hue – View of the Port of Brest • Thomas Jones – Classical Landscape with a River • Angelica Kauffman • Portrait of the Impromptu Virtuoso Teresa Bandettini-Landucci of Lucca • Self-portrait of the Artist hesitating between the Arts of Music and Painting • Thomas Lawrence • Portrait of Lady Manners • A Gipsy Girl • Pinkie • Philip James de Loutherbourg – The Grand Attack on Valenciennes • Jean-Baptiste Regnault – La Liberté ou la Mort ("Liberty or Death"; original lost) • Gilbert Stuart • Portrait of Henry Cruger • Portrait of Horatio Gates • Portrait of John Jay • George Stubbs – Baronet, with Samuel Chifney • Benjamin West – Gentlemen Fishing • Johann Zoffany – ''Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris'' ==Births==

– ''A View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills'' (1794), gouache and watercolour painting on Whatman wove paper • March 26 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (died 1872) • May 13 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter (died 1835) • June 3 – William Charles Ross, British painter of historical paintings, miniatures and portraits (died 1860) • June 23 – Franz Nadorp, German painter who primarily worked and lived in Rome (died 1876) • July 24 – Robert William Sievier, English engraver, sculptor and inventor (died 1865) • August 29 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (died 1880) • September 17 – Henry Wyatt, English portrait painter (died 1840) • September 30 – Carl Joseph Begas, German historical painter (died 1854) • October – Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, English painter, art critic, forger and probable serial poisoner (died 1847) • October 19 – Charles Robert Leslie, English genre painter (died 1859) • November 19 – James Stark, English painter (died 1859) • December 31 – Samuel Jackson, English watercolour and oil painter (died 1869) • date unknown • Ferdinand Deppe, German naturalist, explorer and painter (died 1861) • Abel Dimier, French sculptor (died 1864) • Joseph Patrick Haverty, Irish painter (died 1864) • William Heath, English satirical engraver (died 1840) • Jan Feliks Piwarski, Polish painter and professor of art (died 1859) • Johannes Baptista van Acker, Flemish portrait miniature painter (died 1863) ==Deaths==

• April 4 – Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen, Dutch landscape painter (born 1737) • April 14 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter (born 1733) • May 13 – Pierre-François Brice, Belgian painter (born 1714) • June 11 - Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski, German portrait painter (born 1725) • June 24 – Rosalie Filleul, French painter (born 1752) • August 11 - Christian Ulrik Foltmar, Danish wallpaper weaver, painter of miniatures and organist (born 1716) • October – Jean Humbert, Dutch portrait painter (born 1734) • December 11 – Étienne Ficquet, French engraver (born 1719) • date unknown • Vicente Calderón de la Barca, Spanish historical painter (born 1762) • François Boch, ceramicist, co-founder of Villeroy & Boch (born 1695) • Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (born 1730/1732) • Philippe Curtius, wax modeller (born 1737) • Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher (born 1723) • Jacopo Marieschi, Italian vedute painter (born 1711) ==References==