- 1757 in art
Births
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November 28 -William Blake , English painter, poet and engraver (d. 1827)
*Antonio Canova - sculptor (d. 1822)
*James Sowerby - naturalist and illustrator (d. 1822)
*Nathaniel Plimer - miniaturist (d. 1822)
*Guillaume-Joseph Roques - painter (d. 1847)
*Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy - French painter known for hislandscape s (d. 1841)
*Josef Grassi -Austria n painter especially of portraits (d. 1838)
*Joseph Kreutzinger -Austria n portrait painter (d. 1829)
*Vladimir Borovikovsky - Ukrainian-born painter especialy of Russian portraiture (d. 1825)
*Pierre Cartellier - French sculptor (d. 1831)Deaths
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March 12 -Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (born 1696), Italian designer, second son ofFerdinando Galli Bibiena , most distinguished artist of the Galli-Bibiena family
*Jan Jakob Spoede , Flemish artist (b. 1680)
*Francesco Ange - Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (b. 1675)
*Franz Joseph Spiegler - GermanBaroque painter offrescoes (b. 1691)
*Ádám Mányoki - HungarianBaroque painter (b. 1673)
*Pier Francesco Guala - Italian painter active for the most part in the region of his place of birth,Casale Monferrato (b. 1698)
*Rosalba Carriera - VenetianRococo painter especially ofportrait miniature s (b. 1675)
*Antonio Maria Zanetti - Italian artist especially ofwoodcut s (b. 1680)
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