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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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| 1785 |
| | | French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon crosses the Atlantic to sculpt a statue of George Washington from the life at Mount Vernon | |
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| 1827 |
| | | With Kaaterskill Falls 26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting | |
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| c. 1835 |
| | | A school of landscape painting emerges in New York, with emphasis on the scenery of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains | |
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| 1838 |
| | | John James Audubon completes publication of the 435 plates forming his 4-volume Birds of America | |
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| 1859 |
| | | US artist James McNeill Whistler settles in London, which he makes his home for the rest of his life | |
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| 1861 |
| | | Mathew Brady sends teams ot photographers to the various battle fronts to ensure a thorough photographic record of the American Civil War | |
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| 1866 |
| | | US painter Winslow Homer makes his name with the exhibition of a Civil War subject, Prisoners from the Front | |
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| 1875 |
| | | US artist Thomas Eakins' depiction of the gruesome aspect of surgery, in his portrait of Dr Gross, offends many viewers | |
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