1760 in art

Events

Paintings

Births

*January 10 - Guillaume Guillon Lethière, French neoclassical painter (d. 1832)
*March 6 - Dora Stock, portrait painter (d. 1832)
*November 11 - Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (d. 1834)
*April 13 - Thomas Lawrence - English portrait painter (d. 1830)
* Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (d. 1802)
* Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (d. 1826)
* Pierre-Antoine Bellange, furniture designer (d. 1844)
* Hokusai - Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (d. 1849)
* Giovanni Cendramini - Italian painter and engraver (d. 1839)
* William Thomas Beckford - art critic (d. 1844)
* Charles Paul Landon - French painter and writer on art and artists (d. 1826)
* Guillaume Guillon-Lethière - French neoclassical painter (d. 1832)

Deaths

* January 23 - Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, an Italian painter, 1756 co-founder of the Venetian Academy (b. 1699)
*July 18 - Philip Mercier, portrait painter (b. 1690)
* November 20 - Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter (born 1717)
* Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (b. 1723)
* Yi Insang - Korean painter and government officer in the late Joseon period (b. 1710)
* Andrea Toresani - Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (b. 1727)
* Louis de Silvestre - French painter (b. 1675)
* Francesco Conti - Italian Venetian painter (b. 1681)
* Shen Quan - Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (b. 1682)