1747 in art
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Events from the year 1747 in art.
Events
- August â Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, writes an influential letter on the subject of the Paris Salon.
- Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo joins the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Later in the year he marries Marie-Marguerite Lebrun.
Works
- Francis Bindon â Portrait of Richard Baldwin, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
- Canaletto â London Seen Through an Arch of Westminster Bridge
- Thomas Gainsborough â Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting (Tate Britain)
- Matthäus Günther â Frescos in Amorbach Abbey (1742â47)
- Charles-Joseph Natoire
- Portrait of Louis, Dauphin of France
- Saint Stephen and the False Witnesses (for Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés)
- Triumph of Bacchus (Musée du Louvre)
- Samuel Scott â Wager's Action off Cartagena
- Gervase Spencer â Portrait miniatures
- Richard Wilson
Awards
Births
- January 4 â Dominique Vivant, French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist (died 1825)
- March 8 â Johann Peter Melchior, German porcelain modeller (died 1825)
- September 30 â Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (died 1822)
- December 8 â Louis Gerverot, French porcelain painter (died 1829)
- date unknown
- William Ellis, English engraver (died 1810)
- Giuseppe Quaglio, Italian painter and stage designer (died 1828)
- Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottière, French decorative painter (died 1820)
- Margareta Seuerling, Swedish actor and theater director (died 1820)
- Shiba KÅkan, born AndÅ KichirÅ, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1818)
- Francis Wheatley, English painter and engraver (died 1801)
Deaths
- January 26 â Willem van Mieris, Dutch painter from Leyden (born 1662)
- April 3 â Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and draughtsmen (born 1657)
- July 17 â Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (born 1665)
- November 7 â Giuseppe Melani, Italian painter, active mainly in Pisa (born 1673)
- date unknown
- Elias Baeck, German painter and engraver (born 1679)
- Maurice Baquoy, French engraver (born 1680)
- Giovanni Battista Canossa, Italian wood engraver (born unknown)
- Claude Charles, French historical and decorative painter (born 1661)
- Tommaso Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (born 1700)
- Michael Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter (born 1690)