1750 in art

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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

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.

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)