Events

Nicolas-Jacques Conté patents the modern pencil 'lead' in France and produces the first Conté sticks.

Works

February 10 – Ary Scheffer, French painter of Dutch extraction (died 1858)
May 3 – Richard James Wyatt, English sculptor (died 1850)
May 7 – William Fox-Strangways, English diplomat and art collector (died 1865)
June 23 (bapt.) – William Wyon, English chief engraver at the Royal Mint (died 1851)
July 11 – Amasa Hewins, American portrait, genre, and landscape painter (died 1855)
September 12 – John Frederick Herring, Sr., English painter, sign maker and coachman (died 1865)
October 20 – William Bewick, English portrait painter (died 1866)
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- William Behnes, English sculptor (died 1864)
- 1795-1798: Stephen Poyntz Denning, English portraitist, artist and curator (died 1864)

January 3 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (born 1730)
January 13 – John Hickey, Irish-born sculptor (born 1756)
June 12 – Johann Christian Brand, Austrian painter (born 1722)
June 23 – Alexei Antropov, Russian barocco painter (born 1716)
August 4 – Francisco Bayeu y Subías, Spanish painter in the Neoclassic style, primarily of religious and historical themes (born 1734)
August 31 – Maruyama Ōkyo, Japanese painter (born 1733)
October 6 - Johann Anton de Peters, German painter and etcher (born 1725)
November 15 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French portrait painter (born 1719)
November 18 – Antonio Cavallucci, Italian painter of the late Baroque (born 1752)
December 1 – Antonio Zucchi, Italian painter of the Neoclassic period (born 1726)
December 8 – Giovanni Battista Casanova, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1730)
December 25 – John Alefounder, English portrait and miniature painter (born 1757)
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- Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, French sculptor in the neoclassical style (born 1710)
- Carlo Giuseppe Ratti, Italian art biographer and painter of the late-Baroque period (born 1737)
- Francesco Sozzi, Italian painter (born 1732)
- Paul Theodor van Brussel, Dutch flower painter (born 1754)