1763 in art

Events

* Canaletto is elected to the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts.
* Francesco Zuccarelli (1702-1788) is elected to the Venetian Academy.

Paintings

* (unknown)

Births

* November 25 - Jean Germain Drouais, French historical painter (d. 1788)
* Margareta Alströmer - Swedish painter and singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (d. 1816)
* George Morland - English painter of animals and rustic scenes (d. 1804)
* Karl Ludwig Fernow, art critic (d. 1808)
* Philippe Auguste Hennequin - French painter (d. 1833)
* Antoine-Denis Chaudet - French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style (d. 1810)

Deaths

* Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (b. 1668)
* Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer - German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School (b. 1698)
* Kim Duryang - Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period (b. 1696)
* Giuseppe Nogari - Venetian painter of the Rococo, where he painted mainly painted half-body portraits (b. 1699)
* Carlo Salis - Italian painter of the Baroque period, born in Verona (b. 1680)
* Cao Xueqin - Chinese writer, painter of cliffs and rocks, poet (b. 17615)
* Frans van Mieris jr. - Dutch painter (b. 1689)
* (d. 1763/1764): Jin Nong, Chinese painter of mei blossoms, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (b. 1687)