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Contents 1 Events 2 Works 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• The Nightmare by Henry Fuseli is shown at the Royal Academy of London.

Works

Births

• John Sell Cotman - English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours (d. 1842)
• Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey - sculptor (d. 1841)
• Sir William Allan, historical painter (d. 1850)
• Yakov Kolokolnikov-Voronin - Russian portraitist and icon-painter (d. 1845)
• William Sadler - Irish landscape painter (d. 1839)

Deaths

• April 16 - Giuseppe Vasi, painter (b. 1710)
• May 6 - Johann Caspar Füssli, portrait painter (b. 1706)
• May 15 - Richard Wilson, landscape painter (b. 1714)
• June 26 - Antonio Visentini, architect, painter and engraver (b. 1688)
• Claude Drevet - French portrait engraver (b. 1705)
• Maria Maddalena Baldacci - Italian painter born in Florence (b. 1718)
• Francesco de Mura - Italian painter of portraits and frescoes (b. 1696)