1741 in art

Events

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Paintings

* Pietro Longhi painted "La lezione di danza".

Births

* February 7 - Henry Fuseli, British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art (d. 1825)
* April 15 - Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (d. 1827)
* John Henry Mortimer, painter (d. "unknown")
* October 11 - James Barry, Irish painter (d. 1806)
* Jean-Antoine Houdon - French neoclassical sculptor (d. 1828)
* Thomas Hickey - Irish painter of portraits and genre scenes (d. 1824)
* Alexander Kucharsky - Polish portrait painter (d. 1819)
* Angelica Kauffmann - Swiss-Austrian painter (d. 1807)
* James Barry - Irish painter, one of earliest romantic painters working in Britain (d. 1806)

Deaths

* Andrea Locatelli, Italian painter of landscapes (vedute) (b. 1695)
* Ivan Nikitich Nikitin - Russian painter, an author of portraits and battle paintings (b. 1690)
* Giacomo Adolfi - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in and around Bergamo (b. 1682)
* Onofrio Avellino - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1674)
* Giovanni Antonio Capelli - Italian painter of the late-Baroque (b. 1664)
* Giovanni Antonio Capello - Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Brescia (b. 1669)
* Pietro Paltronieri - Italian painter of quadratura (b. 1673)
* Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini - Italian decorative and mural painter from Venice (b. 1675)
* Giuseppe Mazza - Bolognese sculptor of the Rococo period (b. 1653)