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Births

  • February 15 – Charles-André van Loo
    Charles-André van Loo
    Carle or Charles-André van Loo was a French subject painter, and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo and grandson of Jacob van Loo. He was the most famous member of a successful dynasty of painters of Dutch origin...

    , French subject painter (d. 1765
    1765 in art
    -Paintings:*Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Coresus et Callirhoe*William Pars – The Parthenon when it contained a mosque. Published in James Stuart and Nicholas Revett "The Antiquities of Athens" -Births:...

    ), and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo
    Jean-Baptiste van Loo
    Jean-Baptiste van Loo was a French subject and portrait painter.-Biography:He was born in Aix-en-Provence, and was instructed in art by his father Louis-Abraham van Loo, son of Jacob van Loo...

  • August 18 – Emanuel Büchel
    Emanuel Büchel
    Emanuel Büchel was a Swiss painter.-References:*This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia....

    , Swiss painter (d. 1775
    1775 in art
    -Events:*Construction of the Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, now the National Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca.-Paintings:*John Trumbull – The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill-Births:...

    )
  • date unknown
    • Andrea Casali
      Andrea Casali
      Andrea Casali was an Italian painter of the Rococo period.He was born at Civitavecchia, and is said to have been a pupil of Sebastiano Conca. He traveled to England in 1741, and stayed there for more than two decades, and where he was a teacher to James Durno. Some sources claim a birthdate of...

       – Italian
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

       painter of the Rococo
      Rococo
      Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...

       period (d. 1784
      1784 in art
      -Works:*Jacques-Louis David – painting Oath of the Horatii-Births:*January 21 – Peter De Wint, English landscape painter *February 29 – Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer...

      )
    • Claude Drevet
      Drevet Family
      The Drevet Family were leading portrait engravers of France for over a hundred years. Their fame began with Pierre, and was sustained by his son, Pierre-Imbert, and by his nephew, Claude.-Pierre Drevet:...

       – French
      France
      The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

       portrait engraver (d. 1782
      1782 in art
      -Births:* March 24 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism * April 7 – Sir Francis Legatt Chantrey – sculptor * May 16 – John Sell Cotman – English artist of the Norwich school especially watercolours...

      )
    • Robert Feke
      Robert Feke
      Robert Feke was an American portrait painter born on Long Island, New York. Little is known for certain about his life before 1741, which is the year he painted his first portrait, Family of Isaac Royall. Sixteen portraits in total are known to be by Feke, and an additional 50 are disputed to be...

       – American painter (d. 1750
      1750 in art
      -Paintings:* Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin paints Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, notable for reflected light on glass/silver* Thomas Gainsborough paints Mr and Mrs Andrews* Maruyama Okyo paints The Ghost of Oyuki in ink on silk-Births:...

      )
    • Matthäus Günther
      Matthäus Günther
      Matthäus Günther was an important German painter and artist of the Baroque and Rococo era....

       – German painter
      Painting
      Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

       and artist
      Artist
      An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

       of the Baroque
      Baroque
      The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

       and Rococo
      Rococo
      Rococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...

       era (d. 1788
      1788 in art
      -Works:*Jacques-Louis David - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife*Francisco Goya - The Meadow of San Isidro*Francisco Goya - St. Francis of Borja Attending a Dying Man-Births:...

      )

Deaths

  • January 12 – Luca Giordano
    Luca Giordano
    Luca Giordano was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching. Fluent and decorative, he worked successfully in Naples and Rome, Florence and Venice, before spending a decade in Spain....

    , Italian
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     late Baroque
    Baroque
    The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

     painter and printmaker in etching
    Etching
    Etching is the process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal...

     (b. 1634
    1634 in art
    -Paintings:*Claude Lorrain - The Rape of Europa; Goats -Births:*January - Nicolaes Maes, Dutch painter of genre works and portraits *October 18 - Luca Giordano, Italian painter and printmaker in etching *date unknown...

    )
  • March 28 - Gaspard Rigaud
    Gaspard Rigaud
    Gaspard Rigaud was a French painter and portraitist. He was the younger brother of the portraitist Hyacinthe Rigaud. Gaspard's daughter married Hyacinthe's pupil Jean Ranc....

    , French painter and portraitist (b. 1661
    1661 in art
    -Births:* Scipione Angelini – Italian painter best known for still lifes * Antoine Coypel – French painter * Lucas de Valdés – Spanish painter and engraver of the Baroque period...

    )
  • June 16 – Adriaen van der Cabel
    Adriaen van der Cabel
    Adriaen van der Cabel or Ary van der Touw , was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter active in France and Italy.-Biography:He was born and grew up in the small town of Rijswijk, near The Hague. Cabel was also known as Ary...

    , Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     painter of the Dutch school](b. 1631
    1631 in art
    -Paintings:* Willem Claesz Heda - still lifes.* José de Ribera painted landscape, in the Hospital de Tavera in Toledo, Spain.* Nicolas Poussin - Kingdom of Flora.* Rembrandt...

    )
  • July 16 – François Lespingola
    François Lespingola
    François Lespingola was a French sculptor in the team that provided original sculptures, vases and copies after the Antique for the gardens at Versailles....

    , sculptor (b. 1644)
  • date unknown
    • Zhu Da
      Zhu Da
      Bada Shanren , born as Zhu Da , was a Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher. He was of noble lineage, being a descendant of the Ming dynasty prince Zhu Quan. Art historians have named him as a leading painter of the period....

      , Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher (b. 1626
      1626 in art
      -Works:*Rembrandt**The Angel and the Prophet Balaam**Consul Cerialis and the Germanic Legions**A Musical Gathering**The Rest on the Flight to Egypt **Tobit and Anna with the Kid-Births:...

      )
    • Claude Bertin
      Claude Bertin
      Claude Bertin was a French sculptor, who was part of the highly-trained team that supplied sculptures for Versailles. His monumental marble vases, following the type of the Borghese Vase, with rich bas-reliefs of fruit, swags of ivy or friezes of mythological scenes, executed between 1687 and...

       – French sculptor for the Palace of Versailles
      Palace of Versailles
      The Palace of Versailles , or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles....

       (b. unknown)
    • Giuseppe Diamantini
      Giuseppe Diamantini
      Giuseppe Diamantini was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period, active mainly in Venice.He was born in Fossombrone. His early training is not well documented, but he arrived in Venice by c. 1650. He is known to have designed the title page of a libretto for the opera L’inganno...

       – Italian
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

       painter and printmaker of the Baroque
      Baroque
      The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

       period (b. 1621
      1621 in art
      -Paintings:* Giovanni Francesco Barbieri painted The Suicide of Cleopatra.* Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri painted Virgin and Child.* Domenico Zampieri painted The Assumption of Mary Magdalene into Heaven.-Births:...

      )
    • Antonio Giusti
      Antonio Giusti
      Antonio Giusti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. He was a pupil of the painters Cesare Dandini and Mario Balassi.-References:...

       – Italian painter, active mainly in Florence
      Florence
      Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....

       (b. 1624
      1624 in art
      -Births:*February 11 - Lambert Doomer, Dutch painter *November - Barent Fabritius, Dutch painter *date unknown**Valerio Castello, Italian painter **Antonio Giusti, Italian painter, active mainly in Florence...

      )
    • Andrea Miglionico
      Andrea Miglionico
      Andrea Miglionico was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, born in Naples, and a pupil of Luca Giordano. He painted historical subjects, and there are several of his works in the churches of his native city, the best, perhaps, a 'Pentecost’’' in the SS. Nunziata. He died soon after...

       – Italian
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

       painter of historical subjects (b. unknown)
    • Francisco Meneses Osorio
      Francisco Meneses Osorio
      Francisco Meneses Osorio was a Spanish painter.Osorio was born in Seville, and is thought to have died there. Very little is known of his life. He was a pupil and imitator of Murillo, and it has been suggested that some of the works attributed to the latter were painted by Osorio...

       – Spanish
      Spain
      Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

       painter (b. 1630
      1630 in art
      -Paintings:* Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Merchants * Rembrandt - The Rising of Lazarus, using chiaroscuro* Diego Velázquez – La Fragua de Vulcano-Births:...

      )
    • Daniel Seiter
      Daniel Seiter
      Daniel Seiter, Saiter, or Seyter was a Viennese born painter of the Baroque, who trained and worked in Italy.-Biography:According to Houbraken, he was born on the border of Switzerland and brought up in Vienna...

      , Viennese
      Vienna
      Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

       born fresco
      Fresco
      Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...

       painter of the Baroque
      Baroque
      The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

       (b. 1642/1647
      1642 in art
      - Paintings :* Rembrandt - The Night Watch [see image].* approx. date William Dobson - Charles II, when Prince of Wales, with a Page....

      )
    • Bada Shanren, Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher (b. 1626
      1626 in art
      -Works:*Rembrandt**The Angel and the Prophet Balaam**Consul Cerialis and the Germanic Legions**A Musical Gathering**The Rest on the Flight to Egypt **Tobit and Anna with the Kid-Births:...

      )
    • Zhou Shuxi
      Zhou Shuxi
      Zhou Shuxi was a female Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty. She was a native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, and the second daughter of Zhou Rongqi. Her sobriquet was 'Lady on the River' .Zhou learned painting along with her sister Zhou Shuhu from her father...

      , female Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty
      Qing Dynasty
      The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....

       (b. 1624
      1624 in art
      -Births:*February 11 - Lambert Doomer, Dutch painter *November - Barent Fabritius, Dutch painter *date unknown**Valerio Castello, Italian painter **Antonio Giusti, Italian painter, active mainly in Florence...

      )
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