1740 in art

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List of years in art (table)
... 1730 ^. 1731 ^. 1732 ^. 1733 ^. 1734 ^. 1735 ^. 1736 ... 1737 1738 1739 -1740- 1741 1742 1743 ... 1744 ^. 1745 ^. 1746 ^. 1747 ^. 1748 ^. 1749 ^. 1750 ...
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Events

Chardin, The Morning Toilette

Canaletto
- A Regatta on the Grand Canal (National Gallery, London)
- Venice: The Basin of San Marco on Ascension Day (National Gallery, London)
- Venice: The Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
- Venice: Santa Maria della Salute (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – The Morning Toilette
Matthäus Günther – Fresco in church of SS. Peter and Paul, Mittenwald, Bavaria
William Hogarth – Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram
James Latham – The Rt Hon. Sir Capel Molyneux
Michele Marieschi – The Grand Canal at the Palazzo Foscari
Philippe Mercier – Portrait of John Hall-Stevenson
Peter Scheemakers - Monument to William Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey (designed by William Kent)

February 16 - Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher (died 1813)
March 2 - Nicholas Pocock, English marine painter (died 1821)
May 28 - Fedot Shubin, Russian sculptor (died 1805)
September 7 - Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (died 1814)
September 17 - John Hamilton Mortimer, British Neoclassical painter known primarily for his romantic paintings and Italian landscapes (died 1779)
October 31 - Philip James de Loutherbourg, English miniaturist (died 1812)
November 24 - John Bacon, British sculptor (died 1797)
date unknown
- Innocente Alessandri, Italian engraver, born in Venice (died unknown)
- Margaret Bingham, British painter and writer (died 1814)
- William Beilby, British glassworker and enameller (died 1819)
- Edmund Garvey, Irish painter (died 1813)
- Pierre Gouthière, metal-worker (died 1806)
- Nathaniel Grogan Irish painter from Cork (died 1807)
- William Marlow, English marine painter (died 1813)
- Nikola Nešković, Serbian religious painter of icons, frescoes, and portraits (died 1789)
- Mariano Ramon Sanchez, Spanish painter primarily of portrait miniatures (died 1822)
- John Smart, English painter of portrait miniatures (died 1811)
probable
- Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Irish portrait artist (died 1808)
- Vincenzio Vangelisti, Italian engraver (died 1798)
- Antoine Vestier, French miniaturist and painter of portraits (died 1824)

February 23 - Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Italian sculptor and medallist (born 1656)
April 21 - Antonio Balestra, Italian Rococo painter (born 1666)
May 18 - Giuseppe Palmieri, Italian painter (born 1674)
June - Jan Frans van Bloemen, Flemish landscape painter (born 1662)
July 20 - Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli, Italian painter (born 1672)
July 21 - Johann Evangelist Holzer, Austrian-German painter (born 1709)
November 22 - Georg Gsell, Swiss painter (born 1673)
date unknown
- Pietro Bianchi, Italian painter, active in Genoa and Rome (born 1694)
- Francesco Costa, Italian painter of ornaments and quadratura (born 1672)
- Franz de Paula Ferg, Austrian landscape painter (born 1689)
- Francesco Fernandi, Italian painter (born 1679)
- Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck, Swedish painter (born 1663)
- Bernard Lens III, English artist known primarily for his portrait miniatures (born 1682)
- Antonio Lorenzini, Italian painter and engraver (born 1655)
- Grigoriis Musikiysky, Russian painter (born 1670)
- Giacomo Pavia, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Bologna (born 1655)
- Abbot Giovanni Felice Ramelli, Italian miniaturist (born 1666)
- Arcangelo Resani, Italian painter of animals and hunted game (born 1670)
- Giuseppe Rivola, Italian painter (born unknown)
- Jacob van Huysum, Dutch botanical artist (born 1687)
probable - Guglielmo da Leoni, Italian painter and engraver (born 1664)

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