1794 in art

Events from the year 1794 in art.

Events

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.^[1]

William Blake - The Ancient of Days (1794), watercolour etching

Paul Sandby – 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)

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)^[2]
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)