1760 in art

Events from the year 1760 in art.

Events

• Autumn –
  Johann Zoffany moves to London
  .
• Galleria nazionale di Parma established.

Paintings

• Thomas Gainsborough
  • Anne Ford
  • The Artist`s Daughters, Molly and Peggy
  • Sunset
• Tilly Kettle – Self-portrait, his first surviving painting
• Joshua Reynolds
  • Laurence Sterne
  • Portrait of Mrs Day

Births

• January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (died 1832)
• January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (died 1826)
• Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (died 1832
  )
• March 4 – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey (died 1830)
• March 6 – Dora Stock, portrait painter (died 1832)
• March 16 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (died 1832)^[1]
• Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter (died 1830
  )
• May 31 – George Garrard, English artist (died 1826)
• June 11 - Maria Cosway, Italian-English painter, engraver, composer, musician, and society hostess (died 1838)
• grand prix de Rome (died 1833
  )
• William Thomas Beckford, art critic (died 1844
  )
• October 12 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists (died 1826)
• printmaker of the Edo period (died 1849
  )
• November 11 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (died 1834)
• December 11 - Pierre Petitot, French sculptor (died 1840)
• date unknown
  • Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver (died 1832
    )
  • Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, furniture designer (died 1844)
  • Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1839
    )
  • Pieter Faes, Dutch painter of flowers and fruit (died 1814)
  • Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter (died 1811)
  • John Christian Rauschner, German portrait painter and sculptor (died unknown)
  • Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist (died 1807)
  • Jacob Schnebbelie, English illustrator and engraver (died 1792)
  • Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegory, historical, and portrait painter (died 1820)
• probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (died 1802)

Deaths

• Venetian Academy (born 1699
  )
• April 11 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter (born 1675)
• Philip Mercier, portrait painter (born 1690
  )
• November 20 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter (born 1717)
• December 21 – Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver (born 1709)
• date unknown
  • Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker (born 1702)
  • Venetian painter (born 1681
    )
  • Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (born 1723)
  • Joseon period (born 1710
    )
  • Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (born 1727)
  • Qing Dynasty (born 1682
    )
  • Margaretha Wulfraet, Dutch painter (born 1678)
  • Yi Insang, Korean painter of the later Joseon period (born 1710
    )