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{{Year nav topic5|1781|art}}Events from the year 1781 in art. Events- August 27 – Danish artists Marie Jeanne Crevoisier and Johan Frederik Clemens are married.
Works- George Barret, Sr. – View of Windermere Lake, Early Morning
- Jacques-Louis David – Belisarius begging for alms
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – Eidophusikon
- Henry Fuseli – The Nightmare
- Thomas Gainsborough – Mrs Robinson as Perdita
- Anton Graff – Frederick the Great, King of Prussia
- Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait busts of Voltaire and Molière
- Sir Joshua Reynolds
- Emily Potts as Thaïs (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire)
- George, 2nd Earl Harcourt, his wife Elizabeth and his brother William (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
- George Romney – The Charteris Children
- Joseph Wright of Derby – Sir Brooke Boothby
Births- March (probable) – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter (died 1868)
- March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect and painter (died 1841)
- March 20 – Joseph Paelinck, Belgian painter (died 1839)
- April 7 – Francis Leggatt Chantrey, English sculptor of the Georgian era (died 1841)
- April 8 – Luke Clennell, English engraver and painter (died 1840)
- April 22 – José de Madrazo y Agudo, Spanish Neoclassic painter (died 1859)
- July 25 – Merry-Joseph Blondel, French neo-classic painter (died 1853)
- October 12 – William Westall, English landscape painter (died 1850)
- November 1 – Joseph Stieler, German painter (died 1858)
- November 11 – Caroline Bardua, German painter (died 1864)
- November 21 – Cornelius Varley, English watercolor painter (died 1873)
- date unknown
- Étienne-Jean Delécluze, French painter and critic (died 1863)
- Thomas Douglas Guest, British portrait painter (died 1845)
- Francis Hervé, French-born British painter (died 1850)
- Kikuchi Yōsai – Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome portraits of historical figures (died 1878)
- probable – John Wesley Jarvis, American painter (died 1839)
Deaths- January 15 – Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English sculptor (born 1703)
- February 22 – Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, Italian Rococo sculptor (born 1699)
- March 2 – Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (born 1707)
- April 10 – Teodor Kračun, Serbian painter (born 1730)
- June 5 – Noël Hallé, French painter, draftsman and printmaker (born 1711)
- September 12 – Peter Scheemakers, Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor (born 1691)
- September 30 – Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, French etcher and painter (born 1734)
- October 22 – Johann August Nahl, German sculptor and stucco artist (born 1710)
- November 3 – Jakob Emanuel Handmann, Swiss painter (born 1718)
- November 12 – Jean Grandjean, Dutch painter, draftsman, and watercolourist (born 1752)
- date unknown
- Etienne Aubry, French painter of primarily portraits and genre subjects (born 1746)
- Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, French art critic and director of the official French policy in the arts (born 1707)
- Francesco Caccianiga, Italian painter and engraver (born 1700)
- Carlo Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (born 1705)
- Jacques-Ignace de La Touche, French painter of miniatures and portraits (born 1694)
- Ubaldo Gandolfi, Italian painter (born 1728)
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