[edit] Events

• England's oldest surviving Georgian theatre was constructed in Stockton-on-Tees.

[edit] Paintings

Maruyama Ōkyo, Crows, 1766; pair of sixfold screens; ink and gold on paper.

• Maruyama Ōkyo, Crows

[edit] Births

• ?March 16 - Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, artist and explorer (d. 1875)
• April 6 - Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (d. 1853)
• December 25 - Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (d. 1844)

[edit] Deaths

• January 19 - Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter (born 1695)
• July 17 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the court of the Emperor (b. 1688)
• July 18 - Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna (b. 1730)
• November 7 - Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (b. 1685)
• date unknown
  • Giacomo Boni, Italian painter (b. 1688)
  • Antonio Consetti, Italian historical painter (b. 1686)
  • Vincenzo Meucci, Italian painter whose patrons included Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (b. 1694)