1755 in art

1755 in art

Events

* Canaletto returns from England to Venice, where he continues painting until his death in 1768.

Paintings

* Jean-Honoré Fragonard - "Musical Contest"

Births

* April 16 - Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842)
* Thomas Stothard - English painter and engraver (d. 1834)
* Nicolas-Jacques Conté - painter and inventor of the pencil (d. 1805)
* John Flaxman - sculptor (d. 1826)
* Gilbert Stuart - American painter (d. 1828)
* Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (d. 1822)
* Prince Hoare - English painter and dramatist (d. 1834)
* Philip Jean - English miniaturist painter (d. 1802)
* John Devaere - French sculptor (d. 1830)

Deaths

* Angelo Maria Querini, Italian (b. 1680)
* Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu (b. 1696)
* Jean-Baptiste Oudry - French Rococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer (b. 1686)
* Pier Leone Ghezzi - Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome (b. 1674)
* Giovanni Agostino Ratti - Italian cabinet painter, engraver, and constructed scenography (b. 1699)
* Odoardo Vicinelli - Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (b. 1684)
* (d. 1759/1759): Giuseppe Antonio Petrini - painter belonging to the Northern Italian or Lombard heritage of baroque painting (b. 1677)


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