1760 in art

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Events from the year 1760 in art.

Events

• Autumn – Johann Zoffany moves to London.
• Galleria nazionale di Parma established.

Paintings

Gainsborough – The Artist`s Daughters, Molly and Peggy

• Thomas Gainsborough
  • Anne Ford
  • The Artist`s Daughters, Molly and Peggy
  • Sunset
• Tilly Kettle – Self-portrait, his first surviving painting
• Joshua Reynolds
  • Laurence Sterne
  • Portrait of Mrs Day

Births

• January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (died 1832)
• January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (died 1826)
• March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (died 1832)
• March 4 – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey (died 1830)
• March 6 – Dora Stock, portrait painter (died 1832)
• March 16 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (died 1832)
• April 13 – Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter (died 1830)
• May 31 – George Garrard, English artist (died 1826)
• June 11 - Maria Cosway, Italian-English painter, engraver, composer, musician, and society hostess (died 1838)
• August 3 – Jacques Réattu, French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome (died 1833)
• October 1 – William Thomas Beckford, art critic (died 1844)
• October 12 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists (died 1826)
• October 31? – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (died 1849)
• November 11 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (died 1834)
• December 11 - Pierre Petitot, French sculptor (died 1840)
• date unknown
  • Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver (died 1832)
  • Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, furniture designer (died 1844)
  • Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1839)
  • Pieter Faes, Dutch painter of flowers and fruit (died 1814)
  • Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter (died 1811)
  • John Christian Rauschner, German portrait painter and sculptor (died unknown)
  • Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist (died 1807)
  • Jacob Schnebbelie, English illustrator and engraver (died 1792)
  • Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegory, historical, and portrait painter (died 1820)
• probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (died 1802)

Deaths

• January 23 – Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, an Italian painter, 1756 co-founder of the Venetian Academy (born 1699)
• April 11 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter (born 1675)
• July 18 – Philip Mercier, portrait painter (born 1690)
• November 20 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter (born 1717)
• December 21 – Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver (born 1709)
• date unknown
  • Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker (born 1702)
  • Francesco Conti, Venetian painter (born 1681)
  • Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (born 1723)
  • Yi Insang, Korean painter and government officer of the late Joseon period (born 1710)
  • Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (born 1727)
  • Shen Quan, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1682)
  • Margaretha Wulfraet, Dutch painter (born 1678)
  • Yi Insang, Korean painter of the later Joseon period (born 1710)