1770 in art

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Works

Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770

See also: Category:1770 paintings

• Benjamin West – The Death of General Wolfe

Births

• March 12 – François Gerard, painter (d. 1837)
• October 18 – Thomas Phillips, English portrait and subject painter (d. 1845)
• November 19 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (d. 1844)
• date unknown – Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, French painter (d. 1826)

Deaths

• January 2 – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German Rococo stuccoist and sculptor (b. 1696)
• January 8 – John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor (b. 1694)
• March 23 – Martin van Meytens, Austrian portrait painter (b. 1695)
• March 27 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (b. 1696)
• May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
• July 7 – Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style (b. 1724)
• July 16 – Francis Cotes, English painter (d. 1726)
• December 1 – Giambettino Cignaroli, Italian painter (b. 1718)
• date unknown – Giuseppe Pedretti, Italian painter of lunettes and altarpieces (b. 1694)
• probable – Susanna Drury, Irish painter chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings (b. 1698)