1735 in art
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Events from the year 1735 in art.
Events
- February 18 â The English ballad opera Flora goes down in recorded history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (in Charleston, South Carolina).
- June 25 â In Great Britain, the Engraving Copyright Act ('Hogarth's Act') takes effect on being given royal assent, the first of a series of British copyright protection laws, to protect original engravings against unauthorized copies.[1]
- William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress series of paintings are published as engraved prints in London.[2]
- The Chandos Mausoleum is constructed for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos in St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch, north of London, decorated in a classical trompe-l'Åil style by Gaetano Brunetti.[3]
- Guillaume Coustou the Younger is awarded the Prix de Rome.[4]
Paintings

- Jacopo Amigoni
- Canaletto
- The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo (1730â1735) (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England)
- The Feast Day of Saint Roch (1735)
- The Molo, Venice (approximate date) (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas)
- A Regatta on the Grand Canal (1730â1735) (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England)
- Venice: A Regatta on the Grand Canal (National Gallery, London)
- View of the Piazzetta San Marco Looking South (approximate date) (Indianapolis Museum of Art)
- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
- Boy building a House of Cards (probable first version; Waddesdon Manor, England)
- Boy with a Top
- A Lady Taking Tea
- Agostino Masucci â The Solemnisation of the Marriage of James III and Maria Clementina Sobieska[5]
- Philippe Mercier â Comedians by a Fountain[6]
- Charles-Joseph Natoire â Psyche and Proserpine[7]
- Giovanni Battista Piazzetta â The Assumption of Mary (The Louvre)
Sculptures
Births
- January 18 â Jeremiah Meyer, German-born English miniaturist (died 1789)[8][9]
- May â Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter (died 1822)
- May 8 â Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and later a politician (died 1811)
- June 16 â Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French painter (died 1784)
- July 10 â Ulrika Pasch, Swedish miniaturist (died 1796)
- October 17 â Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School (died 1803)
- December 20 â Friedrich August Brand, Austrian painter and engraver of historical subjects and landscapes (died 1806)
- December 29 â Thomas Banks, sculptor (died 1805)
- date unknown
- Dimitrije BaÄeviÄ, Serbian icon painter and muralist (died 1770)
- Samuel Collins, British miniature painter (died 1768)
- Tilly Kettle, English portrait painter (died 1786)
- Isoda Koryusai, Japanese printmaker and painter (died 1790)
- Ãtienne de La Vallée Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes (died 1802)
- James Tassie, Scottish engraver (died 1799)
- Giovanni Volpato, Italian engraver, excavator, dealer in antiquities and manufacturer of biscuit porcelain figurines (died 1803)
Deaths
- January 21 â Abraham Rademaker, Dutch painter and printmaker (born 1677)
- March 4 â Antonio Beduzzi, Austrian-Italian theater engineer, painter, and architect (born 1675)[10]
- July 1 â Jean Ranc, French portrait painter (born 1674)
- July 16 â Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, British historian, travel writer and artist (born 1670)
- December 11 â Antoine Rivalz, official painter to the town of Toulouse (born 1667)
- date unknown
- Pompeo Aldrovandini, Italian painter (born 1677)
- Antonio Dardani, Italian painter (born 1677)
- Nunzio Ferraiuoli, Italian painter (born 1661)
- Pârvu Mutul, Romanian muralist and church painter (born 1657)
- Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli, Italian Rococo sculptor (born 1654)
