Overview of the events of 1760 in art
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Events from the year 1760 in art.
Events
- Autumn – Johann Zoffany moves to London.
- Galleria nazionale di Parma established.
Paintings
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Tilly Kettle – Self-portrait, his first surviving painting
- Joshua Reynolds
- Laurence Sterne
- Portrait of Mrs Day
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Births
- January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (died 1832)
- January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (died 1826)
- March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (died 1832)
- March 4 – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey (died 1830)
- March 6 – Dora Stock, portrait painter (died 1832)
- March 16 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (died 1832)
- April 13 – Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter (died 1830)
- May 31 – George Garrard, English artist (died 1826)
- June 11 - Maria Cosway, Italian-English painter, engraver, composer, musician, and society hostess (died 1838)
- August 3 – Jacques Réattu, French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome (died 1833)
- October 1 – William Thomas Beckford, art critic (died 1844)
- October 12 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists (died 1826)
- October 31? – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (died 1849)
- November 11 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (died 1834)
- December 11 - Pierre Petitot, French sculptor (died 1840)
- date unknown
- Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver (died 1832)
- Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, furniture designer (died 1844)
- Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1839)
- Pieter Faes, Dutch painter of flowers and fruit (died 1814)
- Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter (died 1811)
- John Christian Rauschner, German portrait painter and sculptor (died unknown)
- Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist (died 1807)
- Jacob Schnebbelie, English illustrator and engraver (died 1792)
- Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegory, historical, and portrait painter (died 1820)
- probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (died 1802)
Deaths
- January 23 – Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, an Italian painter, 1756 co-founder of the Venetian Academy (born 1699)
- April 11 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter (born 1675)
- July 18 – Philip Mercier, portrait painter (born 1690)
- November 20 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter (born 1717)
- December 21 – Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver (born 1709)
- date unknown
- Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker (born 1702)
- Francesco Conti, Venetian painter (born 1681)
- Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (born 1723)
- Yi Insang, Korean painter and government officer of the late Joseon period (born 1710)
- Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (born 1727)
- Shen Quan, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1682)
- Margaretha Wulfraet, Dutch painter (born 1678)
- Yi Insang, Korean painter of the later Joseon period (born 1710)
References
- Müller, Hermann Alexander (1898). "Meyer, Johann Heinrich". Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon (in German). Vol. 3. Frankfurt: Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening. p. 191. Retrieved 2 October 2021.