- 1755 in art
Events
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Canaletto returns fromEngland toVenice , where he continues painting until his death in1768 .Paintings
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard - "Musical Contest"Births
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April 16 -Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun , French painter (d. 1842)
*Thomas Stothard - English painter andengraver (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 anddramatist (d. 1834)
*Philip Jean - Englishminiaturist painter (d. 1802)
*John Devaere - French sculptor (d. 1830)Deaths
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Angelo Maria Querini , Italian (b. 1680)
*Li Fangying , Chinese painter fromJiangsu (b. 1696)
*Jean-Baptiste Oudry - FrenchRococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer (b. 1686)
*Pier Leone Ghezzi - ItalianRococo painter and caricaturist active inRome (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 ofbaroque painting (b. 1677)
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