1760 in art

Events

Paintings

Births

• January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (d. 1832)
• January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (d. 1826)
• March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (d. 1832)
• March 4 – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey (d. 1830)
• March 6 – Dora Stock, portrait painter (d. 1832)
• March 16 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (d. 1832)
• April 13 – Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter (d. 1830)
• October/November – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (d. 1849)
• October 1 – William Thomas Beckford, art critic (d. 1844)
• October 12 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists (d. 1826)
• November 11 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (d. 1834)
• date unknown
  • Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver (d. 1832)
  • Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, furniture designer (d. 1844)
  • Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver (d. 1839)
• probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (d. 1802)

Deaths

• January 23 – Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, an Italian painter, 1756 co-founder of the Venetian Academy (b. 1699)
• April 11 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter (b. 1675)
• July 18 – Philip Mercier, portrait painter (b. 1690)
• November 20 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter (born 1717)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Conti, Venetian painter (b. 1681)
  • Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (b. 1723)
  • Yi Insang, Korean painter and government officer of the late Joseon period (b. 1710)
  • Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (b. 1727)
  • Shen Quan, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (b. 1682)