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Overview of the events of 1750 in art
Events from the year 1750 in art.
Events
Gainsborough's portrait of
Mr and Mrs Andrews
Works
Births
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March 9 –
Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (Leipziger Tischbein), German painter (died
1812)
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June 5 –
Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (died
1817)
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July 21 –
Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (died
1850)
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October 30 –
Jan Bulthuis, Dutch draftsman and painter (died
1801)
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December 6 –
Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (died
1819)
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December 8 –
Giuseppe Cades,
Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver (died
1799)
- date unknown
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Luigi Agricola, Italian painter and jeweler (died
1821)
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John Boyne, British water-colour painter (died
1810)
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P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, French draughtsman and engraver (died unknown)
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Manuel de la Cruz, Spanish painter (died
1792)
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John Downman, English portrait painter (died
1824)
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George Engleheart, English painter of portrait miniatures (died
1829)
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Ludwig Guttenbrunn,
Austrian painter (died
1816)
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Francesco Pozzi, Italian engraver (died
1805)
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Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (died
1808)
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Stefano Tofanelli, Italian painter during the Neoclassic period (died
1810)
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François Marie Suzanne, French sculptor, who created a terracotta figure of
Benjamin Franklin in
1793
Deaths
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March 7 –
Cornelis Troost,
Dutch painter (born
1697)
- April -
Guillaume Taraval, Swedish painter of French descent (born
1701)
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April 29 –
Egid Quirin Asam,
German
plasterer and
sculptor (born
1692)
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June 25 -
Diego Francesco Carlone, Italian sculptor (born
1674)
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July 31 –
Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French
goldsmith,
sculptor, painter,
architect, and
furniture designer (born
1695)
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August 12 –
Rachel Ruysch, Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers (born
1664)
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August 20 –
Nishikawa Sukenobu,
Japanese
ukiyo-e printmaker from
Kyoto (born
1671)
- date unknown
- probable –
Robert Griffier, Dutch landscape painter (born
1688)