1747 in art

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Births

• September 30 – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, patron of the arts (d. 1822)
• December 8 – Louis Gerverot, porcelain painter (d. 1829)
• date unknown
  • Giuseppe Quaglio, Italian painter and stage designer (d. 1828)
  • Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottiere, decorative painter (d. 1820)
  • Francis Wheatley, painter and engraver (d. 1801)

Deaths

• January 26 – Willem van Mieris, Dutch painter from Leyden (b. 1662)
• April 3 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and draughtsmen (b. 1657)
• July 17 – Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School (born 1665)
• date unknown – Giuseppe Melani, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Pisa (b. 1673)