1766 in art

Events

* England's oldest surviving Georgian theatre was constructed in Stockton-on-Tees.

Paintings

* Maruyama Ōkyo, "Crows"

Births

* Jean-Frédéric Waldeck - artist and explorer (d. 1875)
* Wilhelm von Kobell - German painter, printmaker and teacher (d. 1853)
* Giuseppe Longhi - Italian engraver (d. 1831)
* Daniel Grose - Irish topographical artist (d. 1838)

Deaths

* January 19 - Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, French architect and painter (born 1695)
* Giacomo Boni, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (b. 1688)
* Jean-Marc Nattier - French painter (b. 1685)
* Zou Yigui - Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (b. 1686)
* Antonio Consetti - Italian historical painter (b. 1686)
* Vincenzo Meucci - Italian painter patronized by many, including Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (b. 1694)
* Mauro Antonio Tesi - Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna (b. 1730)
* Giuseppe Castiglione - Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the court of the Emperor (b. 1688)