1765 in art

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Events

• The Uffizi in Florence is officially opened to the public as an art gallery.
• Irish sculptor Christopher Hewetson and American painter Henry Benbridge arrive in Rome, where Hewetson settles.

Works

Richard Wilson, Lake Avernus I

• Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Coresus et Callirhoe
• Tilly Kettle – Portrait of Mrs. Yates as Mandane in 'The Orphan of China' (approximate date; Tate Britain)
• William Pars – The Parthenon when it contained a mosque (Published in James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, London, 1789)
• Joshua Reynolds – Robert Clive and his family with an Indian maid
• Richard Wilson – Lake Avernus I (approximate date)

Births

• March 7 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor created some of the earliest photographs (d. 1833)
• April 1 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian artist (d. 1810)
• May 7 – Giovanni Monti, Italian painter of landscapes (d. 1825)
• May 13 – Vieira Portuense, painter (d. 1805)
• June 10 – Cladius Detlev Fritzsch, also known as C. D. Fritzsch, was a Danish flower painter (d. 1841)
• December 3 – Adélaïde Dufrénoy, French poet and painter from Brittany (d. 1825)
• date unknown – Thomas Kirk, British painter, engraver (d. 1797)

Deaths

• July 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French subject painter (born 1705), and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo
• August 1 – Ulla Adlerfelt, Swedish painter and noblewoman (b. 1736)
• October 21 – Giovanni Paolo Pannini or Panini, Italian painter and architect, mainly known as one of the vedutisti or veduta or view painters (b. 1691)
• date unknown
  • Pietro Campana, Spanish engraver (b. 1727)
  • Giovanni Battista Chiappe, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (b. 1723)
  • Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays, French painter (b. 1729)
  • Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (b. 1703)
  • Ercole Graziani the Younger, Italian painter (b. 1688)
  • Zheng Xie, Chinese painter of orchids, bamboo, and stones; one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (b. 1693)
  • Giampietro Zanotti – Italian painter and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (b. 1674)