1751 in art

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Events

• Giovanni Paolo Pannini restarts work on the Trevi Fountain after the death of Nicola Salvi

Works

François Boucher, The Toilet of Venus

• François Boucher – Toilette of Venus
• William Hogarth engraves the prints Gin Lane, Beer Street and The Four Stages of Cruelty
• Pietro Longhi – The Rhinoceros
• Charles-André Vanloo paints portraits

Births

• January 31 – Jean François Carteaux, French painter and army commander (d. 1813)
• April 1 – Joseph Lange, actor and amateur painter (d. 1831)
• May 11 – Ralph Earl, American Loyalist painter (died 1801)
• December 31 – Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder, Austrian historical and portrait painter (d. 1830)
• date unknown
  • George Brookshaw, English painter and illustrator (d. 1823)
  • Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (died 1806)
  • Henry Tresham, Irish-born painter of large-scale history paintings (died 1814)

Deaths

• January 29 – Jacob van Schuppen, Austrian painter (b. 1670)
• September 21 – Annibale Albani, Italian Cardinal and art collector (b. 1682)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Andreini, painter (b. 1697)
  • Helena Arnell – one of the first Finnish painters and few female artists (b. 1697)
  • Jean Charles Flipart, French engraver (b. 1682)
  • Giovanni Domenico Lombardi, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period in Lucca (b. 1682)
  • Michele Rocca, Italian painter of the Baroque period, born at Parma and practised in Rome (b. 1671)