1763 in art

Events

• Canaletto is elected to the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts.
• Francesco Zuccarelli (1702-1788) is elected to the Venetian Academy.

Paintings

• John Singleton Copley – Portraits of James Warren and Mercy Otis Warren
• Matthäus Günther – Frescos in Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Marinus and St. Anianus, Rott am Inn
• George Stubbs (approximate date; Tate Britain)^[1]
  • Horse Frightened by Lion
  • Horse Devoured by a Lion
• Benjamin West – Cymon and Iphigenia (lost)
• Johann Zoffany – Three sons of the Earl of Bute

Births

• June 26 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes (died 1804)
• July 22 - Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker (died 1840)
• August 7 – Johann Jakob Biedermann, Swiss painter and etcher (died 1830)
• November 19 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, art critic (died 1808)
• November 25 – Jean Germain Drouais, French historical painter (died 1788)
• December 12 – Margareta Alströmer, Swedish painter and singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (died 1816)
• date unknown
  • Pietro Bettelini, Italian engraver (died 1828)
  • Antoine-Denis Chaudet, French sculptor in the neoclassical style (died 1810)
  • Joseph-François Ducq, Flemish historical and portrait painter (died 1829)
  • Philippe Auguste Hennequin, French painter (died 1833)
  • Andrew Plimer, English miniaturist (died 1837)
  • Zacarías González Velázquez, Spanish painter (died 1834)
  • Andries Vermeulen, Dutch painter (died 1814)

Deaths

• January 3 – Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (born 1668)
• January 21 – Jean-François Oeben, cabinet-maker (born 1721)
• March 4 - Johan Hörner, Swedish-Danish painter (born 1711)
• ?April – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer, German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School (born 1698)
• April 18 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain modeller (born 1723)
• May 24 - Luis González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (born 1715)
• October 22 – Frans van Mieris jr., Dutch painter (born 1689)
• December 3 - Giuseppe Nogari, Venetian painter of the Rococo, where he painted mainly painted half-body portraits (born 1699)
• date unknown
  • Kim Du-ryang, Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period (born 1696)
  • Carlo Salis, Italian painter, born in Verona (born 1680)
  • Gervase Spencer, English miniaturist (born 1715)
  • Jan van Gool, Dutch painter and biographer (born 1685)
  • Hendrik Frans van Lint, landscape painter from the Southern Netherlands (born 1684)
• probable – Cao Xueqin, Chinese writer, painter of cliffs and rocks, poet (born 1715)

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