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1770 in art

Events from the year 1770 in art.

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Events

  • Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of twenty-six.

    • Works

  • Thomas Gainsborough – The Blue Boy (approximate date)
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds – Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers
  • Alexander Roslin
  • Portrait of the artist's wife (Marie-Suzanne Giroust)
  • Portrait of Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden
  • George Stubbs
  • A Horse Frightened by a Lion (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
  • A Lion Attacking a Horse (Yale University Art Gallery)
  • Benjamin West – The Death of General Wolfe

    • Births

  • January 13 – Anatole Devosge, French painter (died 1850)
  • February 12 – Jean-Jacques Karpff, French painter, designer and miniaturist (died 1829)
  • March 12 – François Gérard, Italian-born French painter (died 1837)
  • c. March 25 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (died 1843)
  • April 12 – George Clint, English portrait painter and engraver (died 1854)
  • April 18 – Ludwig Buchhorn, German painter and engraver (died 1856)
  • June 1 – Michael Sigismund Frank, glass painter (died 1847)
  • July 3 – Thomas Pardoe, English enameler noted for flower painting (died 1823)
  • October 18 – Thomas Phillips, English portrait and subject painter (died 1845)
  • November 19 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (died 1844)
  • November 30 – John Buckler, British draughtsman and engraver (died 1851)
  • date unknown
  • Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur (died 1812)
  • Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, French painter and miniaturist (died 1856)
  • Richard Duppa, English writer and a draughtsman (died 1831)
  • Julien-Joseph Ducorron, Belgian landscape painter (died 1848)
  • Johann Christian Eberlein, German painter (died 1815)
  • Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, French painter (died 1826)
  • John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (died 1819)
  • 1765/1770: Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect and sculptor-decorator (died 1845)

    • Deaths

  • January 2 – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German Rococo stuccoist and sculptor (born 1696)
  • January 8 – John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor (born 1694)
  • March 23 – Martin van Meytens, Austrian portrait painter (born 1695)
  • March 27
  • José Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor (born 1705)
  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (born 1696)
  • May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (born 1703)
  • July 7 – Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style (born 1724)
  • July 16 – Francis Cotes, English painter (born 1726)
  • November 1 – Gaspare Traversi, Italian painter (born c.1722)
  • December 1 – Giambettino Cignaroli, Italian painter (born 1718)
  • December 24 – Pierre-Philippe Mignot, French sculptor (born 1715)
  • date unknown
  • Guillaume Philippe Benoist, French line engraver (born 1725)
  • Isabel Jolís Oliver, Spanish printer and engraver (born 1682)
  • Giuseppe Pedretti, Italian painter of lunettes and altarpieces (born 1694)
  • probable
  • Susanna Drury, Irish painter chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings (born 1698)
  • Dimitirje Bačević, Serbian icon painter and muralist (born 1735).

    • References

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