1753 in art: Difference between revisions

Events from the year 1753 in art.

• Jean-Baptiste Perronneau becomes a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.

• John Giles Eccardt – Richard Bentley
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid
• Thomas Gainsborough – Couple in a Landscape
• Gavin Hamilton – Portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton, commissioned by James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (c. 1752-1753)
• Gustaf Lundberg – Portrait of Carl Linnaeus (Linné)
• Jean-Baptiste Oudry – The White Duck
• Joshua Reynolds – Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
• Johann Heinrich Tischbein – Self-Portrait in Venetian Masquerade Costume
• Marcos Zapata – The Last Supper (Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Cusco)

• February 2 – Giacomo Raffaelli, Italian mosaicist from Rome (died 1836)
• February 24 – Henri-Pierre Danloux, French painter (died 1809)
• April 15 – Robert Smirke, English painter (died 1845)
• May 1 – Joseph Bergler the Younger, painter and etcher (died 1829)
• May 12 – Agustín Esteve, Spanish portraitist and court painter to the Spanish Crown (died 1830)
• August 12 – Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (died 1828)
• September 10 – Sir John Soane, British architect (died 1837)
• October 12 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (died 1817)
• November – Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III (died 1811)
• November 6 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian Neoclassical sculptor active during the Age of Enlightenment (died 1802)
• November 14 – Francis Nicholson, landscape painter (died 1844)
• December 12 – Sir William Beechey, portrait painter (died 1839)
• date unknown
  • Joseph Barney, English painter (died 1832)
  • Pierre Chasselat, French miniature painter (died 1814)
  • Francisco Agustín y Grande, Spanish painter of the Neoclassic style (died 1800)
• probable
  • Fyodor Alekseyev, Russian painter of landscape art (died 1824)
  • Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) (died 1806)

• January 9 – Lars Gallenius, Finnish painter (born 1658)
• July 8 – Federiko Benković, Croatian painter (born 1667)
• August 5 – Johann Gottfried Auerbach, Austrian painter (born 1697)
• September 16 – Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, painter and architect in Prussia (born 1699)
• September 18 – Hristofor Zhefarovich is best remembered as a painter, engraver and writer working in Belgrade (born 1699)
• November – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet and composer (born 1681)
• December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (born 1694)
• December 18 – Miyagawa Chōshun, Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style (born 1683)
• date unknown
  • Gao Xiang, Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (born 1688)
  • André Jean, French artist (born 1662)
  • Francesco Polazzo, Italian painter of portraits and historical subjects (born 1683)
  • Miguel Posadas, Spanish painter (born 1711)
  • Candido Vitali, Italian painter of still life of animals, birds, flower, and fruit (born 1680)
• probable – Angelo Trevisani, Italian painter, active mainly in Venice (born 1669)