1773 in art
Overview of the events of 1773 in art
Events from the year 1773 in art.
Events
Paintings
Joseph Wright – The Earthstopper
Portrait of Joseph Banks by Joshua Reynolds.
Awards
Births
- January 5 – Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter and drawer (died 1839)
- January 31 – Luigi Pichler, German-Italian artist in engraved gems (died 1854)
- July 7 – Moses Haughton the Younger, English engraver and painter of portrait miniatures (died 1849)
- December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, and memorialist (died 1867)
- December 16 – José Aparicio, Spanish painter of the Neoclassic period (died 1838)
- date unknown
Deaths
- February 15 – Anna Maria Barbara Abesch, Swiss reverse glass painter (born 1706)
- March 1 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian engineer and architect (born 1700)
- March 26 – Johan Ross the Elder, Swedish painter (born 1695)
- April 20 – Hubert-François Gravelot, French illustrator (born 1699)
- July 2 – Dirk van der Burg, Dutch artist, landscape painter and watercolourist (born 1721)
- August 19 – Francesco Zahra, Maltese painter (born 1710)
- August 30 – Nicolau Nasoni, artist and architect (born 1691)
- September 13 – Anton Janša, Slovene beekeeper and painter (born 1734)
- December 4 – Anton Losenko, Ukrainian-Russian Neoclassical painter who specialized in historical subjects and portraits (born 1737)
- December 22 – Georg Friedrich Strass, Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones and the rhinestone (born 1701)
- date unknown
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