[edit] Events

[edit] Paintings

Gavin Hamilton, Elizabeth Gunning, C. 1752-1753, commissioned by James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton

• Jean-Baptiste Oudry painted The White Duck.
• Gustaf Lundberg painted a portrait of Carolus Linnaeus (Linné).
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid.
• Johann Heinrich Tischbein painted Self-Portrait in Venetian Masquerade Costume.
• Gavin Hamilton painted a portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton.

[edit] Births

• May 12 - Agustín Esteve, Spanish portraitist and court painter to the Spanish Crown (d. 1830)
• August 12 - Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (died 1828)
• September 10 - John Soane, British architect (d. 1837)
• Fedor Alekseev - Russian painter of landscape art (d. 1824)
• Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III (d. 1811)
• Joseph Barney, painter (d. 1829)
• Sir William Beechey, portrait painter (d. 1839)
• Rosalie Filleul, French painter (guillotined) (d. 1794)
• Mikhail Kozlovsky - Russian Neoclassical sculptor active during the Age of Enlightenment (d. 1802)
• Utamaro - Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) (d. 1806)

[edit] Deaths

• December 15 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (born 1694)
• Johann Gottfried Auerbach - Austrian painter (b. 1697)
• Federiko Benković - Croatian late baroque painter (b. 1667)
• Miyagawa Chōshun - Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style (b. 1683)
• Francesco Polazzo - Italian painter of portraits and historical subjects (b. 1683)
• Angelo Trevisani - Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Venice (b. 1669)
• Giuseppe Valentini - Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer (b. 1681)
• Candido Vitali - Italian painter of still lifes of animals, birds, flower, and fruit (b. 1680)
• Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff - painter and architect in Prussia (b. 1699)
• Gao Xiang, Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou(born 1688)