Events from the year 1778 in art.
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- December – The artistic cargo of the British ship Westmorland, seized by the French, is acquired by Spanish interests.
- Nicholas Pocock gives up his career as a seaman and devotes himself to painting.
- January 1 – Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer (died 1846)
- February 22
- May 31 – John Jackson, English portrait painter (died 1831)[3]
- June 7 – Beau Brummell, leader of fashion (died 1840)
- June 10
- June 15 – Henri Jean-Baptiste Victoire Fradelle, Franco-English painter (died 1865)
- August 4 – Christian Duttenhofer, German engraver (died 1843)
- August 11 – John Christian Schetky, Scottish-born marine painter (died 1874)
- August 17
- August 31 – Friedrich August von Klinkowström, German artist, author and teacher (died 1835)
- September 1 – Reverend John Thomson, minister of Duddingston Kirk and Landscape artist (died 1840)[7]
- October 5 – John James Masquerier, British portrait artist (died 1855)
- date unknown
- January 4 - Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, French painter and draftsman (born 1720)
- February 19 – Nathan Drake, English painter (born c.1728)
- February 24 – Laurent Delvaux, French sculptor (born 1696)
- March – Thomas Roberts, Irish landscape painter (born 1748)
- March 6 – Gaudenzio Botti, Italian painter, mainly active in Brescia (born 1698)
- May 20 – Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (born 1700)
- September 11 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German painter and grandson of the composer (born 1748)
- October 2 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (born 1726)
- November 9 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (born 1720)[9]
- December 15 - Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter (born 1723)
- December 22 – Simon Mathurin Lantara, French landscape painter (born 1729)
- date unknown
Leslie Stephen; Sir Sidney Lee (1891). DNB. Smith, Elder, & Company. p. 157. Antiques. Straight Enterprises. 1959. p. 546.