- 1749 in art
Events
Paintings
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Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin refines technique for reflected light on glass and silver, painting "The Silver Beaker".Births
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January 13 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (d. 1825)
*April 11 -Adelaide Labille-Guiard , French portrait painter (d. 1803)
*August 28 -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , German poet, novelist, dramatist, theorist, painter (d. 1832)
*James Peale - American painter, best known for his miniature and still-life paintings, and a younger brother of noted painterCharles Willson Peale (d. 1831)
*Joseph Strutt - English engraver and antiquary (d. 1802)
* Thomas Burke - Irishengraver and painter (d. 1815)
*Thomas Daniell - landscape painter (d. 1840)
*Archibald Skirving - Scottish portrait painter (d. 1819)
*Charles Nicolas Favart - Frenchactor ,playwright , and painter (d. 1806)
* Edward Smyth - Irishsculptor (d. 1812)
*Johann Ziegler -Austria n painter of landscapes and city scenes (d. 1812)Deaths
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February 8 -Jan van Huysum , Dutch painter (born 1682)
*Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena , Italian painter (born 1656)
*Peter Monamy - English marine painter (b. 1681)
*Donato Creti , Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna (b. 1671)
*Gao Fenghan , Chinese painter (b. 1683)
*Michelangelo Cerruti - Italian fresco artist (b. 1663)
*Alessandro Magnasco - ItalianRococo painter of genre or landscape scenes (b. 1667)
*Aureliano Milani - Italian painter and teacher inBologna (b. 1675)
*Pierre Subleyras - French painter, active during the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic period (b. 1699)
*Bernardino Ludovisi - Italian sculptor (b. 1693)
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