1756 in art

Events from the year 1756 in art.

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
  • Gaspard Duché de Vancy, French painter and drawer (died 1788)
  • Thomas Gaugain, English stipple engraver (died 1812)
  • John Hickey, Irish-born sculptor (died 1795)
  • 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)
• May 2 - John Faber Junior, Dutch portrait engraver (born c.1695)
• 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)
  • 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