1753 in art

1753 in art

Events

Paintings

* Jean-Baptiste Oudry painted "The White Duck".
* Gustaf Lundberg painted a portrait of Carolus Linnaeus (Linné).
* Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted "Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid".
* Johann Heinrich Tischbein painted "Self-Portrait in Venetian Masquerade Costume".
* Gavin Hamilton painted a portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton.

Births

* May 12 - Agustín Esteve, Spanish portraitist and court painter to the Spanish Crown (d. 1830)
* August 12 - Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (died 1828)
* September 10 - John Soane, British architect (d. 1837)
* Utamaro - Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints ("ukiyo-e") (d. 1806)
* Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III (d. 1811)
* Joseph Barney, painter (d. 1829)
* Sir William Beechey, portrait painter (d. 1839)
* Fedor Alekseev - Russian painter of landscape art (d. 1824)
* Mikhail Kozlovsky - Russian Neoclassical sculptor active during the Age of Enlightenment (d. 1802)

Deaths

* December 15 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (born 1694)
* Gao Xiang, Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou(born 1688)
* Miyagawa Chōshun - Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style (b. 1683)
* Francesco Polazzo - Italian painter of portraits and historical subjects (b. 1683)
* Angelo Trevisani - Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Venice (b. 1669)
* Candido Vitali - Italian painter of still lifes of animals, birds, flower, and fruit (b. 1680)
* Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff - painter and architect in Prussia (b. 1699)
* Giuseppe Valentini - Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer (b. 1681)
* Michelangelo Unterberger - Austrian painter of religious themes (b. 1695)


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