1756 in art
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Events
Paintings
François Boucher, Madame de Pompadour, 1756
- François Boucher paints portraits of Madame de Pompadour.
- John Singleton Copley paints pictures after Rococo influence.
- Thomas Gainsborough paints The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly
- Joshua Reynolds paints portraits of Susanna Beckford and Captain Robert Orme.
- Szymon Czechowicz paints Bishop Stanislaus bringing back to life Piotrawin.
Births
- January 6 – Gaspare Landi, Italian Neoclassical painter (died 1830)
- February 12 – Joseph Chinard, French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style (died 1813)
- March 4 – Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (died 1823)
- April 26 – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (died 1812)
- May 23 - Charles Clément Balvay, French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin (died 1822)
- June 3 – Louis-François Cassas, French landscape painter, sculptor and architect (died 1827)
- June 6 – John Trumbull, American painter (died 1843)
- July 14 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist (died 1827)
- August 13 – James Gillray, British caricaturist (died 1815)[1]
- October 22 - Samuel Alken, English sculptor and engraver (died 1815)
- December 7 – Cornelis van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (died 1839)
- December 17 - Edme Quenedey des Ricets, French painter and engraver, especially miniatures (died 1830)
- date unknown
- Thomas Gaugain, English stipple engraver (died 1812)
- Grigory Ostrovsky, Russian portraitist (died 1814)
- Hugh Robinson, British history and portrait painter (died 1796)
- (b. 1756/1758) – Francesco Piranesi, Italian engraver and architect (died 1810)
Deaths
- January 25 - Christoph Thomas Scheffler, German Rococo painter (born 1699)
- July 24 – George Vertue, English engraver and antiquary (born 1684)
- November 21 - José de Ibarra, Mexican painter (born 1688)
- date unknown
- Bernard Accama, Dutch painter (born 1697)
- Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi, Ottoman calligrapher (born 1687)
- John Faber Junior, Dutch portrait engraver (born c.1695)
- Li Shan, Chinese painter (born 1686)
- Hua Yan, Chinese painter from Fujian province (born 1682)
- Zhang Zongcang, Chinese painter in the Qing Dynasty (born 1686)
References
- ↑ Gillray, James (1966). Hill, Draper, ed. Fashionable contrasts: caricatures. London: Phaidon. p. 8.
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