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- March 19 – Guillaume Coustou the YoungerGuillaume Coustou the YoungerGuillaume Coustou the Younger was a French sculptor.The son of Guillaume Coustou the Elder and nephew of Nicolas Coustou, he trained in the family atelier and studied at the French Academy in Rome, 1736–39, as winner of the Prix de Rome...
, painter (d. 17771777 in art-Births:*January 2 – Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor *January 7 – Lorenzo Bartolini, Italian sculptor *March 9 – Aleksander Orłowski, Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire...
) - March 25 – Alexei AntropovAlexei AntropovAlexei Petrovich Antropov was a Russian painter active primarily in St. Petersburg, where he was born and died. He also worked in Moscow and frescoed churches in Kiev. His preferred medium was oil, but he also painted miniatures and icons....
, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n baroccoBaroccoBarocco is a 1976 French romantic thriller film, directed by André Téchiné. The film stars Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu and Marie-France Pisier. Identity, redemption and resurrection are the themes of the film. The plot follows a young woman who convinces her boxer boyfriend to accept a bribe...
painterPaintingPainting 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...
(d. 17951795 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:...
) - June 18 – Joseph-Marie VienJoseph-Marie VienJoseph-Marie Vien , French painter, was born at Montpellier. He was the last holder of the post of Premier peintre du Roi, serving from 1789 to 1791....
, FrenchFranceThe 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...
painterPaintingPainting 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...
(d. 18091809 in art-Works:*John Constable – Malvern Hall*Caspar David Friedrich – Mönch am Meer*Jacques-Louis David – Sappho and Phaon*Henry Raeburn – Mrs Spiers-Births:...
) - December 1 – Étienne Maurice FalconetÉtienne Maurice FalconetÉtienne Maurice Falconet is counted among the first rank of French Rococo sculptors, whose patron was Mme de Pompadour.-Life:Falconet was born to a poor family in Paris...
, FrenchFrench peopleThe 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...
RococoRococoRococo , 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. 17911791 in art-Births:*January 6 – William Bent Berczy, painter and political figure in Upper Canada *February 13 – Sylvester Shchedrin, Russian landscape painter *March 20 – Marie Ellenrieder, German painter...
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- Yosa BusonYosa Busonwas a Japanese poet and painter from the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest poets of the Edo Period. Buson was born in the village of Kema in Settsu Province...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and painter from the Edo periodEdo periodThe , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
(d. 17841784 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...
) - Luis Egidio Meléndez, SpanishSpainSpain , 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...
still-life painter (d. 17801780 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...
) - Fedor Leontyevich ArgunovArgunovArgunov - family of artists and architects, serfs of counts Sheremetev. They worked in Moscow and in Sheremetev’s mansions , and also in St.Petersburg.*Fedor Leontyevich Argunov - the painter....
, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n painterPaintingPainting 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...
(d. 17541754 in art-Events:*Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce founded in England by William Shipley-Births:*May 8 – Amos Doolittle, engraver *May 10 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German...
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- Yosa Buson
- probable – Bartolomeo CavaceppiBartolomeo CavaceppiBartolomeo Cavaceppi was an Italian sculptor who worked in Rome, where he trained in the studio of the acclimatized Frenchman, Pierre-Étienne Monnot, and then in the workshop of Carlo Antonio Napolioni, a restorer of sculptures for Cardinal Alessandro Albani, who was to become a major patron of...
, Italian sculptor who worked in Rome (d. 17991799 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David – The Intervention of the Sabine Women*Anne-Louis Girodet – Mademoiselle Lange en Danaé*Francisco Goya – Los Caprichos*J. M. W. Turner – Norham Castle-Births:*January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter...
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Deaths
- December 13 – Charles de La FosseCharles de La FosseCharles de La Fosse , French painter, was born in Paris.He was one of the most noted and least servile pupils of Le Brun, under whose direction he shared in the chief of the great decorative works undertaken in the reign of Louis XIV. Leaving France in 1662, he spent two years in Rome and three in...
, FrenchFranceThe 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...
painterPaintingPainting 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. 16401640 in art-Paintings:*Rembrandt - Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet*Diego Velázquez - Mars Resting -Births:*June 21 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch painter born at Frankfurt...
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- Giovanni CantiGiovanni CantiGiovanni Canti was an Italian painter of the Baroque. Born in Parma. Active in early 18th century. Among his pupils were Giuseppe Bazzani and Francesco Maria Raineri. He resided chiefly at Mantua, where he painted mainly battle-pieces and landscapes.-References:...
, Italian painter (b. 16501650 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:...
) - Juan CorreaJuan CorreaJuan Correa was a Mexican painter of mixed Moorish or African, Indian and Spanish heritage. His years of greatest activity were from 1671 to 1716. He painted many religious-themed, Baroque paintings for cathedrals in Mexico. Correa was José de Ibarra's teacher...
, Mexican painter of primarily religious themes (b. 16461646 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...
) - Ogata KōrinOgata Korinwas a Japanese painter of the Rinpa school.-Early life:Kōrin was born in Kyoto, to a wealthy merchant who had a taste for the arts and is said to have given his son some elementary instruction therein...
, JapaneseJapanese peopleThe are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
painter and lacquerLacquerIn a general sense, lacquer is a somewhat imprecise term for a clear or coloured varnish that dries by solvent evaporation and often a curing process as well that produces a hard, durable finish, in any sheen level from ultra matte to high gloss and that can be further polished as required...
er (b. 16581658 in art-Paintings:*Adriaen van der Spelt and Frans van Mieris paint "Flower Piece with Curtain". It is now kept at The Art Institute of Chicago.*Rembrandt van Rijn – Self-portrait*Guido Cagnacci – Death of Cleopatra-Births:...
) - Garret MorpheyGarret MorpheyGarret Morphey was an Irish painter.-Career:One of the earliest, if not the earliest, Irish painters, Morphey practised in Dublin. He was most likely a pupil of Gaspar Smitz, a Dutch painter who worked in Ireland, though he is also recorded as having been an assistant to Edmund Ashfield in London...
, IrishIrish peopleThe Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
painter of portraits, genre scenes and landscapes (b. 16501650 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:...
) - Sante VandiSante VandiSante Vandi was an Italian portrait painter of the Baroque period. He was a pupil of Carlo Cignani. He is also known as Santino da' Ritratti. In early life he painted at Bologna, but was afterwards employed at Mantua, and other cities in Central Italy. He had constant commissions, and left a great...
, ItalianItalyItaly , 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...
portrait painter (b. 16531653 in art-Events:*Architect and painter Lambert van Haven begins a 16-year period of travelling in Europe.-Paintings:*Claude Lorrain - The Adoration of the Golden Calf*Rembrandt van Rijn - Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer...
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- Giovanni Canti