1750 in art
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Paintings
- Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin paints Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, notable for reflected light on glass/silver
- Thomas GainsboroughThomas GainsboroughThomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter.-Suffolk:Thomas Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woolen goods. At the age of thirteen he impressed his father with his penciling skills so that he let...
paints Mr and Mrs AndrewsMr and Mrs AndrewsMr and Mrs Andrews is an oil painting of 1750 by the British artist Thomas Gainsborough in the National Gallery, London. Today it is one of his most famous works. It was purchased in 1960 with contributions from the Pilgrim Trust, The Art Fund, Associated Television Ltd, and Mr and Mrs W. W. Spooner... - Maruyama OkyoMaruyama Okyo, born Maruyama Masataka, was a Japanese artist active in the late 18th century. He moved to Kyoto, during which he studied artworks from Chinese, Japanese and Western sources. A personal style of Western naturalism mixed with Eastern decorative design emerged, and Ōkyo founded the Maruyama school...
paints The Ghost of OyukiThe Ghost of OyukiThe Ghost of Oyuki is a painting of a female yūrei, , by Maruyama Okyo , founder of the Maruyama-Shijô school of painting....
in ink on silk
Births
- December 6 – Pierre-Henri de ValenciennesPierre-Henri de ValenciennesPierre-Henri de Valenciennes was a French painter.Valenciennes worked in Rome from 1778 to 1782, where he made a number of landscape studies directly from nature, sometimes painting the same set of trees or house at different times of day...
, French painter (d. 18191819 in art-Events:*Francisco Goya begins the series of "Black Paintings", working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms at his home, Quinta del Sordo, near Madrid.-Works:*Washington Allston – Florimell's Flight...
) - December 8 – Giuseppe CadesGiuseppe CadesGiuseppe Cades was an Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver.Cades was born in Rome. He studied under Mancini and Domenico Corvi, gaining a prize in 1765 with his picture of Tobias recovering his Sight. He visited Florence in 1766, and two years later executed an altar-piece for San Benedetto in...
, 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...
sculptor, painter, and engraver (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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- John DownmanJohn DownmanJohn Downman was a Welsh portrait and subject painter.-Life and work:Downman is thought to have been born near Ruabon, Denbighshire, the son of Francis Downman, attorney, of St Neots, and Charlotte ; his grandfather, Hugh Downman , had been the master of the House of Ordnance at...
, English portrait painter (d. 18241824 in art-Events:*April 2 – The British government buys John Julius Angerstein's art collection for £60,000 for the purpose of establishing a National Gallery in London....
) - François Marie SuzanneFrançois Marie SuzanneFrançois Marie Suzanne was a French sculptor. His works included a full-length statuette of Rousseau, a terra cotta Bacchanal and a terra cotta statuette of Benjamin Franklin...
, a French sculptor, created terra cotta figure of Benjamin FranklinBenjamin FranklinDr. Benjamin Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat...
in 17931793 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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- John Downman
Deaths
- March 7 – Cornelis TroostCornelis TroostCornelis Troost was a Dutch painter from Amsterdam, "by far the most original and versatile artist of his age", which was however the period following the Dutch Golden Age painting of the previous century...
, DutchDutch peopleThe Dutch people are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language. Dutch people and their descendants are found in migrant communities worldwide, notably in Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and the United...
painter (b. 16971697 in art-Births:* October 28 – Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice * Bernard Accama or Bernardus, Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland...
) - April 29 – Egid Quirin AsamEgid Quirin AsamEgid Quirin Asam was a German plasterer and sculptor active during the period of the Late Baroque....
, GermanGermansThe Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
plastererPlastererA plasterer is a tradesman who works with plaster, such as forming a layer of plaster on an interior wall or plaster decorative moldings on ceilings or walls...
and sculptor (b. 16921692 in art-Births:*June 3 - Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter *September 1 - Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor active during the period of the Late Baroque *date unknown...
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- Francesco BoccaccinoFrancesco BoccaccinoFrancesco Boccaccino was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born at Cremona. He studied at Rome, first under Giacinto Brandi, and afterwards worked in the studio of Carlo Maratta. The Cremonese Antonio Beltrami was one of Boccaccino's pupils.-References:...
, Italian painter, born at CremonaCremonaCremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...
(b. 16801680 in art-Events:*Following the death of Sir Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller is appointed Principal Painter to the Crown by King Charles II of England.-Births:*January 3 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco plasterer *date unknown...
) - Diego Francesco CarloneDiego Francesco CarloneDiego Francesco Carlone was an Italian sculptor.Carlone was born in Scaria into a family of artists. His father owned a workshop where Carlone learned the sculpting trade and eventually inherited the business. The workshop produced stucco decorations for a number of churches in the neighboring...
, Italian sculptor (b. 16741674 in art-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain painted Seaport .* Willem van de Velde the Elder painted the First Battle of Schooneveld-Births:*January 12 – Alexis Simon Belle French portrait painter...
) - Leonardo CoccoranteLeonardo CoccoranteLeonardo Coccorante was an Italian painter who was born in Naples, Italy. He studied with Jan Frans van Bloemen , Angelo Maria Costa , and finally with Gabriele Ricciardelli . From 1737 to 1739, he was employed decorating the royal palace of Naples...
, Italian painter especially of large, highly detailed landscapes with imaginary classical architectural ruins (b. 16801680 in art-Events:*Following the death of Sir Peter Lely, Godfrey Kneller is appointed Principal Painter to the Crown by King Charles II of England.-Births:*January 3 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco plasterer *date unknown...
) - 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:...
, Italian portrait painter, especially of the House of StuartHouse of StuartThe House of Stuart is a European royal house. Founded by Robert II of Scotland, the Stewarts first became monarchs of the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 14th century, and subsequently held the position of the Kings of Great Britain and Ireland...
(b. 16981698 in art-Births:* Gaudenzio Botti – Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia * Giovanni Francesco Braccioli – Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara...
) - Robert FekeRobert FekeRobert 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 (b. 17051705 in art-Births:*February 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French subject painter , and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo*August 18 – Emanuel Büchel, Swiss painter *date unknown**Andrea Casali – Italian painter of the Rococo period...
) - Robert GriffierJan GriffierJan Griffier was a Dutch Golden Age painter who was active in England, where he was admitted to the London Company of Painter-Stainers in 1677.-Biography:...
– Dutch landscape painter (b. 16881688 in art-Paintings:*René-Antoine Houasse - Minerva teaching the Rhodians sculpture *Willem van de Velde the Younger - The Fleet at Sea-Births:*April 15 – Johann Georg Bergmüller, painter of frescoes, of the Baroque...
) - Juste-Aurèle MeissonnierJuste-Aurèle MeissonnierJuste Aurèle Meissonier was a French goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer.He was born at Turin, but became known as a worker in Paris, where he died. His Italian origin and training were probably responsible for the extravagance of his decorative style...
, French goldsmithGoldsmithA goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Since ancient times the techniques of a goldsmith have evolved very little in order to produce items of jewelry of quality standards. In modern times actual goldsmiths are rare...
, sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
, painter, architectArchitectAn architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
, and furniture designer (b. 16951695 in art-Paintings:* Mei Qing paints Two Immortals on Huangshan-Births:* Miguel Cabrera – Indigenous Zapotec painter, * Laurent Delvaux – French sculptor * Elias Gottlob Haussmann – German painter in the late Baroque era...
) - Nishikawa Sukenobu, 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 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...
printmaker from KyotoKyotois a city in the central part of the island of Honshū, Japan. It has a population close to 1.5 million. Formerly the imperial capital of Japan, it is now the capital of Kyoto Prefecture, as well as a major part of the Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto metropolitan area.-History:...
(b. 16711671 in art-Events:*The Discalced Carmelites of Vilnius build a wooden chapel to house the painting Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn.-Works:*Gerard de Lairesse – Three ceiling paintings for Andries de Graeff, now at the Peace Palace in The Hague...
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- Francesco Boccaccino