1750 in art

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The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia is founded by the Venetian Senate as Venice’s school of painting, sculpture, and architecture, with Giovanni Battista Piazzetta as its first president.

Gainsborough's portrait of Mr and Mrs Andrews

Andrea Casali paints Lucretia (approximate date)
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
William Hogarth paints the satirical The March of the Guards to Finchley
Maruyama Okyo paints The Ghost of Oyuki in ink on silk
Claude Joseph Vernet paints a Times of Day series

Chardin's Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit

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.

March 7 – Cornelis Troost, Dutch painter (b. 1697)
April 29 – Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor (b. 1692)
July 31 - Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer (b. 1695)
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)
- Nishikawa Sukenobu, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker from Kyoto (b. 1671)