1730 in art

Events

• Pope Clement XII commissions Nicola Salvi to renovate the Trevi Fountain

Paintings

• Canaletto
  • The Bacino di San Marco (National Museum Cardiff)
  • The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute
  • The Molo Looking East
  • Venice: the Grand Canal with S. Maria della Salute towards the Riva degli Schiavoni (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
• Rosalba Carriera – Flora
• William Hogarth
  • A Children's Party
  • A House of Cards
• Enoch Seeman – Portrait of King George I
• Hamlet Winstanley – Portrait of Bishop Edward Waddington

Births

• January 15 – Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna (died 1766)
• January 22 - Johan Edvard Mandelberg, Swedish-born painter (died 1786)
• April 1 – Solomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (died 1788)
• April 11 - Josef Kramolín, Czech fresco painter (died 1802)
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (died 1795)
• September 19 – Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (died 1809)
• November 2 - Giovanni Battista Casanova, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1795)
• November 3 - Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (died 1819)
• date unknown
  • Jacques-François Amand, French historical painter (died 1769)
  • James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake (died 1802)
  • Antonio Capellini, Italian engraver (died unknown)
  • Niccolò Carissa, Italian painter of still-life specimens of flowers, vegetables, and birds (died unknown)
  • Teodor Kračun, Serbian painter, active mainly in North Serbia (died 1781)
  • Niccolò Lapiccola, Italian painter (died 1790)
  • Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (died 1780)
  • Min Zhen, Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang in Jiangxi (died 1788)
• probable
  • (b. 1730/1738): Aleijadinho, colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect (died 1814)
  • (b. 1730/1732): Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (died 1794)
  • Alexander Bannermann, English engraver (died unknown)
  • George Barret, Sr., Irish landscape artist (died 1784)
  • Gabriele Bella, Italian Baroque painter (died 1799)
  • Robert Carver, Irish painter especially of theater scenery (died 1791)
  • Dorning Rasbotham, English writer and painter (died 1791)

Deaths

• February 12 – Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutista) (born 1663)
• February 26 – Johann Peter Alexander Wagner, Rococo sculptor (died 1809)
• March 30 - Jaime Mosen Ponz, Spanish painter (born 1671)
• July 18 – Tommaso Dossi, Italian painter from Verona (born 1678)
• October 25 – Johann Michael Rottmayr, Austrian painter (born 1656)
• October 29 - Jean Louis Petitot, French enamel painter (born 1652)
• October 30 - Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter of genre works (born 1655)
• November 10 – Gregorio Lazzarini, Italian painter of religious subjects and those from history and mythology (born 1657)
• November 21 – François de Troy, French painter, father of Jean-François de Troy (born 1645)
• December – Alida Withoos, Dutch botanical artist and painter (born 1661/1662)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian still-life painter, active in Rome (born 1659)
  • Huang Ding, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (born 1650)
  • Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian engraver (born 1659)
  • Giovanni Battista Parodi, Italian fresco painter (born 1674)
  • Sieuwert van der Meulen, Dutch painter (born 1663)
  • Marc van Duvenede, Flemish painter (born 1674)
  • François-Alexandre Verdier, French painter, draftsman and engraver (born 1651)
• probable
  • Pietro Nelli, Italian portrait painter (born 1672)
  • Clemente de Torres, Spanish Baroque painter of Genoese origin (born 1662)