1795 in art

Events from the year 1795 in art.

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

• William Blake's monotypes Nebuchadnezzar, Newton,^[1] The Night of Enitharmon's Joy and Pity.
• Giuseppe Ceracchi's marble portrait bust of George Washington
• Anton Hickel's The House of Commons, 1793–94
• Philip James de Loutherbourg's painting Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June.
• François-Xavier Fabre's Portrait of Lord Holland.
• François Gérard's portrait of fellow-artist Jean-Baptiste Isabey with his daughter.
• Francisco Goya's Self-portrait in the studio.
• Guillaume Guillon-Lethière's painting The Death of Cato of Utica
• John Hoppner's Portrait of the Frankland sisters.

• 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)