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| 1775 |
| | | John Singleton Copley, already established as America's greatest portrait painter, moves to London | |
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| 1778 |
| | | In Brook Watson and the Shark John Singleton Copley creates the most intensely dramatic of his modern history paintings | |
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| 1778 |
| | | 15-year-old Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun earns enough from painting portraits to support the rest of her family | |
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| 1783 |
| | | Jacques-Louis David, establishing a reputation with his severe classical paintings, is elected to the French academy | |
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| 1786 |
| | | Francisco de Goya is appointed painter to the king of Spain, Charles III | |
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| 1789 |
| | | The painter Jacques-Louis David sketches the events in the Versailles tennis court | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Francisco de Goya is appointed court painter to the new Spanish king, Charles IV | |
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| 1790 |
| | | English painter J.M.W. Turner is only 15 when a painting of his, a watercolour, is first exhibited at the Royal Academy | |
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| c. 1792 |
| | | Scottish painter Henry Raeburn depicts the Reverend Robert Walker skating on Duddingston Loch | |
|  | Raeburn, The Reverend Robert Walker Skating (detail)
National Gallery of Scotland
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| 1798 |
| | | After four years in Copenhagen, German artist Caspar David Friedrich makes his life-long home in Dresden | |
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