1764 in art
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Events from the year 1764 in art.
Events
- February - Joshua Reynolds co-founds The Club with writer Samuel Johnson.
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art") is published.
Paintings
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- Pompeo Batoni
- Nicola Bertucci and Carlo Lodi â The Pleasures of Country Life (tempera paintings for Villa Sampiera, Bologna)
- Nathaniel Dance-Holland â Portrait of Angelica Kauffman
- Vigilius Eriksen â Catherine II Before the Mirror
- Thomas Gainsborough â Portrait of Countess Howe
- Angelica Kauffman
- Edward Penny â The Marquis of Granby Relieving a Sick Soldier
- Joshua Reynolds â Miss Nelly O'Brien
- Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo â The Magic Lantern
- Johann Zoffany â The Three Sons of the Earl of Bute
Births
- April 1 - Barbara Krafft, Austrian portrait painter (died 1825)
- April 13 â Giacomo Guardi, Italian veduta painter (died 1835)
- April 14 â Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder (died 1836)
- April 20 â Rudolph Ackermann, Saxon-born printer and lithographer (died 1834)
- April 30 â Luigi Ademollo, Italian painter (died 1849)
- May 11 â Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter (died 1823)
- May 20 â Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor (died 1850)
- July 9 â Louis-Pierre Baltard, architect and engraver (died 1846)
- July 12 â Charles Thévenin, neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes (died 1838)
- August 22 â Charles Percier, French architect and designer (died 1838)
- September 18 â Mauro Gandolfi, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School (died 1834)
- October 14 â Ferdinand Runk, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher (died 1834)
- October 19 - Johann Christoph Rincklake, German portrait painter (died 1813)
- Unknown
- Jacques-Louis Copia, French engraver (died 1799)
- Giovanni Folo, Italian engraver of the Neoclassic period (died 1836)
- Probable
- Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1844)
Deaths
- March 13 â Okumura Masanobu, Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter (born 1686)
- April 9 â Marco Benefial, Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome (born 1684)
- May 3 â Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, engraver and art critic (born 1712)
- July 20 â Peter van Bleeck, portrait painter and engraver (born 1697)
- August 23 â Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (born 1726)
- September 1 â Sebastiano Conca, Italian painter (born 1680)
- October 26 â William Hogarth, English painter credited with pioneering western sequential art (born 1697)
- November 13 â John Wootton, English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes (born 1682)
- Undated â Francesco Zucchi, Italian engraver (born 1692)