1729 in art
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- HogarthHogarth-People:* Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist, illustrator, educator and author* David George Hogarth, English archaeologist* Donald Hogarth, Canadian politician and mining financier* Paul Hogarth, English painter and illustrator...
painted Act III of The Beggar's Opera. - François LemoyneFrançois LemoyneFrançois Lemoyne or François Le Moine was a French rococo painter.He was born in Paris. In 1701, when he was 13 years old, he entered the Académie de peinture et de sculpture. He studied under Louis Galloche and stayed until 1713. In 1711, Lemoyne won the Prix de Rome...
painted Pygmalion Watching his Statue Come to Life. - Antonio DavidAntonio DavidAntonio David was an Italian painter.David was the official painter for the Jacobite court living in Rome. David painted primarily portraits, and for twenty years worked almost exclusively with the House of Stuart. He died in 1750. -References:...
painted portraits of Prince Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") and his brother Prince Henry. - Nicolas de LargillièreNicolas de LargillièreNicolas de Largillière was a painter born in Paris, France.-Early life:Largillière's father, a merchant, took him to Antwerp at the age of three. As a boy, he spent nearly two years in London. Sometime after his return to Antwerp, a failed attempt at business led him to the studio of Goubeau...
(ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
) painted portrait of Elizabeth Throckmorton. - A painter of the "Nasini circle" painted the Miracle of San Vincenzo Ferrer.
Births
- January 17 – Giovanni Antonio ZaddeiGiovanni Antonio ZaddeiGiovanni Antonio Zaddei was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara.Born in Brescia, Zaddei studied with Antonio Paglia, then in 1746, he moved to Bologna to work under Giuseppe Marchesi, then five years later worked under Giovanni Battista Cignaroli...
, 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...
painter of altarpieceAltarpieceAn altarpiece is a picture or relief representing a religious subject and suspended in a frame behind the altar of a church. The altarpiece is often made up of two or more separate panels created using a technique known as panel painting. It is then called a diptych, triptych or polyptych for two,...
s from the BaroqueBaroqueThe 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, mainly active in FerraraFerraraFerrara is a city and comune in Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy, capital city of the Province of Ferrara. It is situated 50 km north-northeast of Bologna, on the Po di Volano, a branch channel of the main stream of the Po River, located 5 km north...
(d. unknown) - March 24 – Simon Mathurin LantaraSimon Mathurin LantaraSimon Mathurin Lantara was a French landscape painter.He was born at Oncy. His father was a weaver, and he himself began life as a herdboy; but, having attracted the notice of Gille de Reumont, a son of his master, he was placed under a painter at Versailles...
, 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...
landscape painterLandscape artLandscape art is a term that covers the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, and especially art where the main subject is a wide view, with its elements arranged into a coherent composition. In other works landscape backgrounds for figures can still...
(d. 17781778 in art-Paintings:* John Singleton Copley - Watson and the Shark* Goya - Children With a Cart* Gilbert Stuart - Self-portrait-Births:*January 1 - Charles Alexandre Lesueur, artist and explorer...
) - April 13 – Rienk JelgerhuisRienk JelgerhuisRienk Jelgerhuis was a Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman.Jelgerhuis was born in Leeuwarden. He mainly made his fame as a travelling portrait-painter and has no fewer than 7,763 portraits standing to his credit. He taught his son, Johannes Jelgerhuis, who became an accomplished painter,...
, Dutch painter, engraver and draftsman (d. 18061806 in art-Events:*The Elgin Marbles are brought to Britain from Greece by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.-Works:* Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres:*Napoleon on his Imperial Throne*Madame Rivière-Births:...
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- Jean-Baptiste-Henri DeshaysJean-Baptiste-Henri DeshaysJean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays or Deshayes was a French painter of religious and mythological subjects.-Life:Deshays was born in Colleville. His first training was under his father, the minor Rouen painter Jean-Dominique Deshays, he then spent a little time under Jean-Baptiste Descamps at his Ecole...
, French painter (d. 17651765 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:...
) - Saverio GandiniSaverio GandiniSaverio Gandini was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque and Neoclassic periods, mainly active in Brescia.Born in Cremona, he became a pupil of Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena. As a young man, he traveled to Rome to paint and study for a few years, then returned to Brescia.-References:...
, Italian painter (d. 17961796 in art-Births:* February 3 – Jean Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer *May 28 – William Miller, Scottish Quaker line engraver * July 2 – Michael Thonet, furniture designer * July 17 – Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter...
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- Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays
Deaths
- March 9 – Henrietta JohnstonHenrietta JohnstonHenrietta de Beaulieu Dering Johnston was a pastelist of uncertain origin active in the English colonies in North America from approximately 1708 until her death...
, early AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
pastellist (b. 16701670 in art-Paintings:*Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael – The windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede*Vermeer - The Lacemaker-Births:*January 26 – Jacob van Schuppen, Austrian painter *August 24 – Louis Galloche, French painter *date unknown...
) - August 22 – Torii Kiyonobu ITorii Kiyonobu Iwas a Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, who is renowned for his work on Kabuki signboards and related materials. Along with his father Torii Kiyomoto, he is said to have been one of the founders of the Torii school of painting....
, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-eUkiyo-e' is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters...
style, especially on KabukiKabukiis classical Japanese dance-drama. Kabuki theatre is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by some of its performers.The individual kanji characters, from left to right, mean sing , dance , and skill...
signboards (b. 16641664 in art-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Psyche outside the Palace of Cupid -Births:* Torii Kiyonobu I – Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, especially on Kabuki signboards...
) - December 24 – Marcantonio FranceschiniMarcantonio FranceschiniMarcantonio Franceschini , was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mostly in his native Bologna. He was the father and teacher of Giacomo Franceschini.-Biography :...
, Italian painter of religious and mythological subjects (b. 16481648 in art-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain - The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba; Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah; Landscape with Dancing Figures ; Landscape with Paris and Oenone...
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- Scipione AngeliniScipione AngeliniScipione Angelini was an Italian painter of Baroque period, best known for still-lifes. Born and active in Ascoli.-References:...
, Italian painter of still-lifes (b. 16611661 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...
) - Panagiotis DoxarasPanagiotis DoxarasPanagiotis Doxaras was a Greek painter who founded the Heptanese School of Greek art .- Biography :He was born in Mani, Ottoman Greece. In 1664, his family moved to Zante where he was taught iconography by Leo Moscos. In 1694 he joined the Venetian army and fought against the Ottomans in Chios...
, GreekGreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
painter who founded the Heptanese School of Greek art (b. 16621662 in art-Paintings:*The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis * Ex-Voto de 1662 by Philippe de Champaigne*Rembrandt van Rijn – The Sampling Officials-Births:* Pierre Gobert, French painter...
) - Anna Maria EhrenstrahlAnna Maria EhrenstrahlAnna Maria Ehrenstrahl, as married Wattrang, , was a Swedish painter, the leading female painter in her country. She was a baroque-artist and painted allegorical works, portraits and group portraits in the style of the Baroque.- Biography :...
, SwedishSwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
painter of allegoriesAllegoryAllegory is a demonstrative form of representation explaining meaning other than the words that are spoken. Allegory communicates its message by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation...
, portraits and group portraits (b. 16661666 in art-Events:*A stay of three to five years at the Palazzo Mancini in Rome. at the expense of the King of France. is added to the Prix de Rome award.-Births:*April 12 – Pierre Le Gros the Younger, French sculptor, active almost exclusively in Baroque Rome...
) - Lorenzo FratelliniLorenzo FratelliniLorenzo Fratellini was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. Also known as Lorenzo Maria Fratellini. Born in Florence, his mother Giovanna Fratellini was renowned for painting miniature portraits. Like his mother, he trained under Antonio Domenico Gabbiani. He specialized as a still life...
, Italian painter of miniature portraits (b. 16901690 in art-Events:*Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer leaves France for England, where he produces a series of decorative panels for Montagu House, Bloomsbury.-Births:*January 22 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter...
) - Cristóbal de LeónCristóbal de León (painter)Cristóbal de León was a Spanish painter, active near Seville. He was a pupil of Juan Valdes Leal. He painted eighteen monastic portraits, and some for the church of San Felipe Neri in Seville. He died at Seville. He is presumed to be the brother of the painter Felipe de León.-References:...
, 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...
painter of monastic portraits (b. unknown) - Krzysztof LubienieckiKrzysztof LubienieckiChristoffel or Krzysztof Lubieniecki was a Polish Baroque painter and engraver active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age.-Biography:...
– Polish Baroque painter and engraver (b. 16591659 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...
) - John NostJohn NostJohn Nost was a Flemish sculptor, from Mechelen. He was employed by Arnold Quellin, and married his widow. He moved to England at the end of the seventeenth century, and set up business in Haymarket....
, Flemish sculptor especially utilizing leadLeadLead is a main-group element in the carbon group with the symbol Pb and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal. It is also counted as one of the heavy metals. Metallic lead has a bluish-white color after being freshly cut, but it soon tarnishes to a dull grayish color when exposed...
(b. unknown) - Marco RicciMarco RicciMarco Ricci was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was the nephew of Sebastiano Ricci. After receiving his first instruction in art from his uncle, he visited Rome, where he was for some years occupied in drawing vedute....
, Italian vedutaVedutaA veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista....
painter (b. 16761676 in art-Births:* Théobald Michau , Flemish painter * Jeong Seon – Korean landscape painter * Francesco Maria Raineri – Italian sculptor of battle scenes, landscapes, and veduta with historical or mythologic figures...
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- Scipione Angelini