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Births

  • March 8 – Gaetano Majorano, Italian castrato and opera singer (d. 1783
    1783 in art
    -Works:* Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun – Portrait of Marie Antoinette-Births:*January 2 – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, Danish painter *February 10 – Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist...

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  • May 8 – Peter Anton von Verschaffelt
    Peter Anton von Verschaffelt
    Peter Anton von Verschaffelt was a Flemish sculptor and architect.Verschaffelt designed, among other things in Mannheim, the High Altar of the Jesuit church , the arsenal and the Bretzenheim Palace, as well as the church Wallfahrtskirche Mariä Himmelfahrt in Oggersheim .-Life and work:Verschaffelt...

    , Flemish sculptor and architect (d. 1793
    1793 in art
    -Works:* Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat.* François Marie Suzanne, a French sculptor, created a terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin .-Births:*January 15 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer...

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  • May 23 – François Gaspard Adam
    François Gaspard Adam
    François Gaspard Adam was a French rococo sculptor.A member of the Adam family of painters, François was born at Nancy, and studied under his father, Jacob-Sigisbert. He later followed his two brothers to Rome in 1730, before moving to Paris...

    , French
    French people
    The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

     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...

     sculptor (d. 1781
    1761 in art
    -Births:*January 24 – Johann Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher *May – John Opie, historical and portrait painter *July 5 – Louis-Léopold Boilly, French painter...

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  • August 22 – Johann August Nahl
    Johann August Nahl
    Johann August Nahl was a German sculptor and stuccist.He was first taught by his father Johann Samuel Nahl , who had been court sculptor of Frederic I since 1704. At the age of 18, Nahl undertook a journey via Sigmaringen and Bern to Strasbourg, where he worked for Robert Le Lorrain...

    , German sculptor and stucco artist (d. 1781
    1781 in art
    -Works:*Jacques-Louis David – Belisarius begging for alms* Henry Fuseli – The Nightmare-Births:*March – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter *March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, architect and painter...

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  • August 27 – Giuseppe Vasi
    Giuseppe Vasi
    Giuseppe Vasi was an Italian engraver and architect, best known for his vedute.He was born in Corleone, Sicily and later moved to Rome. From 1746 to 1761 he published a series of ten volumes including 240 engravings of vedute of Rome...

    , Italian artist (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...

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  • September 3 – Abraham Trembley
    Abraham Trembley
    Abraham Trembley was a Swiss naturalist. He is best known for being the first to study freshwater polyps or hydra and for being among the first to develop experimental zoology...

    , Swiss naturalist and zoological artist (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...

    )
  • October 4 – Count Augustin Ehrensvärd
    Augustin Ehrensvärd
    Field marshal count Augustin Ehrensvärd was a Swedish military officer, military architect, artist, creator of the Sveaborg fortress and the Swedish Archipelago fleet,...

    , Swedish military architect and painter (d. 1772
    1772 in art
    -Events:*King George III of the United Kingdom appoints Benjamin West official painter to the court.-Works:* John Singleton Copley – Samuel Adams, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston*Fyodor Rokotov – Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya-Births:...

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  • October 11 – Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain
    Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain
    Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain was a French sculptor who tempered a neoclassical style with Rococo charm and softness, under the influence of his much more famous brother-in-law, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle....

    , French sculptor in the neoclassical style (d. 1795
    1795 in art
    -Works:* William Blake's monotypes Nebuchadnezzar, Newton, The Night of Enitharmon's Joy and Pity.* Philip James de Loutherbourg's painting Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June.-Births:...

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  • date unknown
    • Yi Insang
      Yi Insang
      Yi Insang was a painter and a government officer in the late Joseon period.Yi Insang was born to a high class and grandson of Yi Gyeongyeo who served as Yeonguijeong . He worked as a government officer, Hyeongam of Eumjuk...

      , Korea
      Korea
      Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

      n painter and government officer in the late Joseon period
      Joseon Dynasty
      Joseon , was a Korean state founded by Taejo Yi Seong-gye that lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo at what is today the city of Kaesong. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day Seoul...

       (d. 1760
      1760 in art
      -Births:*January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter *January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator *March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness...

      )
    • Michele Marieschi
      Michele Marieschi
      Michele Marieschi , also known as Michiel, was a Venetian painter of landscapes and cityscapes who painted his vedute, or views, mostly in Venice....

      , 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 landscapes or vistas (a vedutisti
      Veduta
      A veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista....

      ) (d. 1743
      1743 in art
      -Works:* William Hogarth begins painting his Marriage à-la-mode series* Louis-Michel van Loo completes The Family of Philip V-Births:*March 9 – Johann Kaspar Füssli, Swiss painter...

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  • probableGeorg Franz Ebenhech
    Georg Franz Ebenhech
    Georg Franz Ebenhech was a German sculptor known for his mastery of marble technique.Little is known of Ebenhech's early life before he arrived at Berlin, but it is believed that he had previously worked in Italy, Leipzig, and Dresden...

    , German sculptor (d. 1757
    1757 in art
    -Births:*March 21 – James Sowerby, naturalist and illustrator *July 24 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-born painter especially of Russian portraiture *November 1 – Antonio Canova, sculptor...

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  • Francesco Toschi – 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...

     veduta
    Veduta
    A veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista....

     painter (d. 1780
    1780 in art
    -Births:*February 18 – Alexey Venetsianov, Russian painter especially of peasant life and ordinary people *April 14 – Edward Hicks, folk artist *August 29 – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, French Neoclassical painter...

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  • Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain
    Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain
    Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain was a French sculptor who tempered a neoclassical style with Rococo charm and softness, under the influence of his much more famous brother-in-law, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle....

     – French sculptor in the neoclassical style (d. 1795
    1795 in art
    -Works:* William Blake's monotypes Nebuchadnezzar, Newton, The Night of Enitharmon's Joy and Pity.* Philip James de Loutherbourg's painting Lord Howe's action, or the Glorious First of June.-Births:...

    )
  • Marcos Zapata
    Marcos Zapata
    Marcos Zapata , also called Marcos Sapaca Inca, was a Peruvian Quechua painter, born in Cuzco. He was one of the last members of the Cuzco School, an art center in which Spanish painters taught native students to paint religious works. Zapata introduced elements from his own lands into his paintings...

     – Peru
    Peru
    Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

    vian Quechua painter (d. 1773
    1773 in art
    -Events:*Francisco Goya marries Josefa Bayeu.*Ulrika Pasch elected in to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts-Births:*December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, and memorialist *date unknown...

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Deaths

  • January 30 – Madeleine Boullogne
    Madeleine Boullogne
    Madeleine Boullogne was a French Baroque still life painter.-Family:She was the daughter of Louis Boullogne and the sister of the painters Bon, Louis and Geneviève Boullogne.-Life:On 7 November 1669 she was received into the Académie royale de...

    , French painter (b. 1646
    1646 in art
    -Births:*April 20 - Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta *August 8 - Godfrey Kneller, portrait painter in England *date unknown**Andrea Belvedere, Italian painter...

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  • October 5 - John Baptist Medina
    John Baptist Medina
    Sir John Baptist Medina or John Baptiste de Medina was an artist of Flemish-Spanish origin who worked in England and Scotland, mostly as a portrait painter, though he was also the first illustrator of Paradise Lost by John Milton in 1688.-Life and portrait-painting:Medina was the son of a Spanish...

    , Flemish-Spanish portrait painter and illustrator of Paradise Lost
    Paradise Lost
    Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was originally published in 1667 in ten books, with a total of over ten thousand individual lines of verse...

     (b. 1659
    1659 in art
    -Paintings:* Rembrandt – Jacob Wrestling with the Angel* Jan Vermeer – Officer and a Laughing Girl-Births:*January 21 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes...

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  • date unknown
    • Margherita Caffi
      Margherita Caffi
      Margherita Caffi was an Italian painter of still lifes of flowers and fruit. She was born in Cremona and died in Milan.-References:...

      , Italian woman painter of Still life
      Still life
      A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

       (b. 1650
      1650 in art
      - Paintings :*Claude Lorrain – Coast Scene with the landing of Aeneas and View of La Crescenza*Gerard Dou – The Dutch Housewife*Aniello Falcone – The Anchorite-Births:...

      )
    • Giovanni Antonio Fumiani
      Giovanni Antonio Fumiani
      Giovanni Antonio Fumiani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Born in Venice in 1645, he trained in Bologna under Domenico degli Ambrogi, a specialist in quadratura, but by 1668 he was back in Venice, where he painted a Virgin and Saints in San Benedetto...

      , Italian painter (b. 1645
      1645 in art
      -Paintings:* approx. date - William Dobson - The Painter with Sir Charles Cottrell and another.* Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Apollo and Mercury .-Births:...

      )
    • Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao
      Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao
      Basilio Pacheco de Santa Cruz Pumacallao was a Quechua painter from Cusco, Peru. He was part of the Cuzco School, a colonial movement of indigenous painters educated in the Baroque religious painting tradition of Spain.-Background:...

      , Quechua painter from Cusco, Peru (b. 1635
      1635 in art
      -Events:*Nicolas Poussin produces The Triumph of Pan and The Triumph of Bacchus to decorate Cardinal Richelieu's château.-Paintings:*Gerard ter Borch – Consultation* Abraham Bosse – Der Ball ...

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    • Sebastiano Taricco
      Sebastiano Taricco
      Sebastiano Taricco was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Taricco was born in Cherasco, a city of the Piedmont, while some claimed he studied along with Guido Reni and with Domenichino in the school of the Caracci, his lifespan indicates otherwise, and likely he was a follower of their...

      , Italian 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...

       period (b. 1645
      1645 in art
      -Paintings:* approx. date - William Dobson - The Painter with Sir Charles Cottrell and another.* Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Apollo and Mercury .-Births:...

      )
    • Anna Maria Thelott
      Anna Maria Thelott
      Anna Maria Thelott was a Swedish artist, and one of the first self-supporting and professional female artists in Scandinavia. She was an engraver, an illustrator, a woodcut-artist, and a miniaturist painter.- Biography and career :...

      , Swedish engraver, illustrator
      Illustrator
      An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...

      , woodcut
      Woodcut
      Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...

      -artist, and miniaturist 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...

       (b. 1683
      1683 in art
      -Births:*date unknown**Gao Fenghan, Chinese painter **Miyagawa Chōshun, Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style **Ciro Adolfi, Italian painter...

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    • Girolamo Troppa
      Girolamo Troppa
      Girolamo Troppa was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was active in Rome. He was a follower of Carlo Maratti. He painted for the church of San Giacomo delle Penitenti, in competition with the son of Giovan Francesco Romanelli...

      , Italian 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. 1637
      1637 in art
      -Events:* Claude Lorrain produces a series of etchings of a display of fireworks in Rome.-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain – Seaport and Landscape with a Country Dance* Pieter de Grebber – Elisha refusing the gifts of Naaman-Births:...

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    • Giovanni Francesco Venturini
      Giovanni Francesco Venturini
      Giovanni Francesco Venturini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Rome. From the style of his engraving, it is probable that he was a pupil ot Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi...

      , Italian painter and engraver (b. 1650
      1650 in art
      - Paintings :*Claude Lorrain – Coast Scene with the landing of Aeneas and View of La Crescenza*Gerard Dou – The Dutch Housewife*Aniello Falcone – The Anchorite-Births:...

      )
    • Joseph Werner
      Joseph Werner
      Joseph Werner , known as the Younger to distinguish him from his painter father of the same name, was a Swiss painter, known for miniatures.-References:*This article was initially translated from the German Wikipedia....

      , Swiss miniaturist (b. 1637
      1637 in art
      -Events:* Claude Lorrain produces a series of etchings of a display of fireworks in Rome.-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain – Seaport and Landscape with a Country Dance* Pieter de Grebber – Elisha refusing the gifts of Naaman-Births:...

      )
    • Giuseppe Zimbalo
      Giuseppe Zimbalo
      Giuseppe Zimbalo was an Italian architect and sculptor.Known as the Zingarello , he was one of the most prominent artists in the so-called Baroque of Lecce, his hometown in southern Italy...

      , Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1617
      1617 in art
      -Events:*Kanō Tan'yū becomes an official artist of the Tokugawa shogunate.*Lucas Vorsterman joins the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, soon becoming Rubens's primary engraver.-Works:*Peter Paul Rubens - Adoration of the Magi*Diego Velázquez - The Lunch...

      )
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