1750 in art
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[edit] Paintings
Chardin's Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit
See also: Category:1750 paintings
- Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin paints Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, notable for reflected light on glass/silver
- Thomas Gainsborough paints Mr and Mrs Andrews
- Maruyama Okyo paints The Ghost of Oyuki in ink on silk
[edit] Births
- December 6 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (d. 1819)
- December 8 – Giuseppe Cades, Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver (d. 1799)
- date unknown
- John Downman, English portrait painter (d. 1824)
- François Marie Suzanne, a French sculptor, created terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin in 1793.
[edit] Deaths
- March 7 – Cornelis Troost, Dutch painter (b. 1697)
- April 29 – Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor (b. 1692)
- date unknown
- Francesco Boccaccino, Italian painter, born at Cremona (b. 1680)
- Diego Francesco Carlone, Italian sculptor (b. 1674)
- Leonardo Coccorante, Italian painter especially of large, highly detailed landscapes with imaginary classical architectural ruins (b. 1680)
- Antonio David, Italian portrait painter, especially of the House of Stuart (b. 1698)
- Robert Feke – American painter (b. 1705)
- Robert Griffier – Dutch landscape painter (b. 1688)
- Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer (b. 1695)
- Nishikawa Sukenobu, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker from Kyoto (b. 1671)