1748 in art

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Events

• Patience Lovell, the first recognized American-born sculptor, marries Joseph Wright.

Works

Robert Feke, Portrait of William Bowdoin, 1748

See also: Category:1748 paintings

• Robert Feke - Portrait of William Bowdoin

Awards

• Prix de Rome (for sculpture) - Augustin Pajou

Births

• May 22 - Thomas Roberts, Irish Landscape artist (d. 1778)
• August 30, Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
• October 13 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, painter and art historian (d. 1821)
• November 8 - Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor (d. 1828)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter in the Neoclassic style (d. 1814)
  • Louis Masreliez, Swedish painter and interior designer (d. 1810)
  • John Ramage, Irish American goldsmith and miniaturist (d. 1802)

Deaths

• April 12 - William Kent, architect and designer (b. 1685)
• May 5 - Alessandro Galli Bibiena, Italian architect and painter, eldest son of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena (b. 1686)
• June 11 - Felice Torelli, Italian from a family of painters, painter of altarpieces (b. 1667)
• August 14 - Thomas Germain, silversmith (b. 1673)
• September 15 - Johann Georg Schmidt, Austrian Baroque painter (b. 1685)
• date unknown
  • Ferdinando del Cairo, Italian painter of the Baroque (b. 1666)
  • Giovanni Casini, Italian portrait painter and sculptor (b. 1689)
  • Giovanni Battista Lama, Italian painter, active mainly in Naples (b. 1673)
  • Giovanni Pietro Ligario, Italian painter of historical pictures for churches and private collections (b. 1686)