1773 in art

Events from the year 1773 in art.

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Events

Joseph Wright – The Earthstopper

John Singleton Copley – Portrait of Mrs Winslow
François-Hubert Drouais – Portrait of Marie Antoinette
Dmitry Levitzky – Portraits of the young ladies of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg
Charles Willson Peale – Family Group portrait
Sir Joshua Reynolds – Lady Anne Luttrell, The Duchess of Cumberland
Joseph Wright of Derby – Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent
Melchior Wyrsch – Reginald Pole Carew
Joseph Vernet – A Shipwreck in Stormy Seas

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
- Edward Wedlake Brayley, English enameller, topographer, and writer (died 1854)
- John Comerford, Irish miniature painter (died 1832)
- Carl Conjola, German landscape painter (died 1831)
- Luigi Rados, Italian engraver (died 1840)
- Naitō Toyomasa, Japanese sculptor of netsuke from Tanba Province (died 1856)

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
- Gerhard Bockman, Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver (born 1686)
- Thomas-Joachim Hébert, French ébéniste and furniture designer (born 1687)
- Jakob Klukstad, Norwegian wood carver and painter (born 1705)
- Antonio Rossi – Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (born 1700)
- József Lénárd Wéber, Hungarian sculptor (born 1702)
- Marcos Zapata, Peruvian Quechua painter (born 1710)