1730 in art

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Events from the year 1730 in art.

Events

Pope Clement XII commissions Nicola Salvi to renovate the Trevi Fountain

Works

Canaletto
- The Bacino di San Marco (National Museum Cardiff)
- The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute
- The Molo Looking East
- Venice: the Grand Canal with S. Maria della Salute towards the Riva degli Schiavoni (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
Rosalba Carriera – Flora
William Hogarth
- A Children's Party
- A House of Cards^{[permanent dead link]}
Henry Scheemakers – Memorial to Sir Francis Page and Frances, Lady Page (Steeple Aston church, Oxfordshire)
Enoch Seeman – Portrait of King George I
Hamlet Winstanley – Portrait of Bishop Edward Waddington

Births

January 15 – Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna (died 1766)
January 22 – Johan Edvard Mandelberg, Swedish-born painter (died 1786)
April 1 – Solomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (died 1788)
April 11 – Josef Kramolín, Czech fresco painter (died 1802)
July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (died 1795)
July 31 – Charles-Antoine Bridan, French sculptor (died 1805)
September 19 – Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (died 1809)
November 2 – Giovanni Battista Casanova, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1795)
November 3 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (died 1819)
date unknown
- Jacques-François Amand, French historical painter (died 1769)
- James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake (died 1802)
- Antonio Capellini, Italian engraver (died unknown)
- Niccolò Carissa, Italian painter of still-life specimens of flowers, vegetables, and birds (died unknown)
- Teodor Kračun, Serbian painter, active mainly in North Serbia (died 1781)
- Niccolò Lapiccola, Italian painter (died 1790)
- Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (died 1780)
- Min Zhen, Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang in Jiangxi (died 1788)
probable
- (b. 1730/1738): Aleijadinho, colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect (died 1814)
- (b. 1730/1732): Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (died 1794)
- Alexander Bannermann, English engraver (died unknown)
- George Barret, Sr., Irish landscape artist (died 1784)
- Gabriele Bella, Italian Baroque painter (died 1799)
- Robert Carver, Irish painter especially of theater scenery (died 1791)
- Dorning Rasbotham, English writer and painter (died 1791)

Deaths

February 12 – Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutista) (born 1663)
February 26 – Johann Peter Alexander Wagner, Rococo sculptor (died 1809)
March 30 – Jaime Mosen Ponz, Spanish painter (born 1671)
July 18 – Tommaso Dossi, Italian painter from Verona (born 1678)
October 25 – Johann Michael Rottmayr, Austrian painter (born 1656)
October 29 – Jean Louis Petitot, French enamel painter (born 1652)
October 30 – Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter of genre works (born 1655)
November 10 – Gregorio Lazzarini, Italian painter of religious subjects and those from history and mythology (born 1657)
November 21 – François de Troy, French painter, father of Jean-François de Troy (born 1645)
December – Alida Withoos, Dutch botanical artist and painter (born 1661/1662)
date unknown
- Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian still-life painter, active in Rome (born 1659)
- Huang Ding, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (born 1650)
- Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian engraver (born 1659)
- Giovanni Battista Parodi, Italian fresco painter (born 1674)
- Sieuwert van der Meulen, Dutch painter (born 1663)
- Marc van Duvenede, Flemish painter (born 1674)
- François-Alexandre Verdier, French painter, draftsman and engraver (born 1651)
probable
- Pietro Nelli, Italian portrait painter (born 1672)
- Clemente de Torres, Spanish Baroque painter of Genoese origin (born 1662)