1730 in art

Events from the year 1730 in art.

Events

 * Pope Clement XII commissions Nicola Salvi to renovate the Trevi Fountain

Works

 * Canaletto
 * The Bacino di San Marco (National Museum Cardiff)
 * The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute
 * The Molo Looking East
 * Venice: the Grand Canal with S. Maria della Salute towards the Riva degli Schiavoni (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
 * Rosalba Carriera – Flora
 * William Hogarth
 * A Children's Party
 * A House of Cards
 * Henry Scheemakers – Memorial to Sir Francis Page and Frances, Lady Page (Steeple Aston church, Oxfordshire)
 * Enoch Seeman – Portrait of King George I
 * Hamlet Winstanley – Portrait of Bishop Edward Waddington

Births

 * January 15 – Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna (died 1766)
 * January 22 – Johan Edvard Mandelberg, Swedish-born painter (died 1786)
 * April 1 – Solomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (died 1788)
 * April 11 – Josef Kramolín, Czech fresco painter (died 1802)
 * July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (died 1795)
 * July 31 – Charles-Antoine Bridan, French sculptor (died 1805)
 * September 19 – Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (died 1809)
 * November 2 – Giovanni Battista Casanova, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1795)
 * November 3 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (died 1819)
 * date unknown
 * Jacques-François Amand, French historical painter (died 1769)
 * James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake (died 1802)
 * Antonio Capellini, Italian engraver (died unknown)
 * Niccolò Carissa, Italian painter of still-life specimens of flowers, vegetables, and birds (died unknown)
 * Teodor Kračun, Serbian painter, active mainly in North Serbia (died 1781)
 * Niccolò Lapiccola, Italian painter (died 1790)
 * Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (died 1780)
 * Min Zhen, Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang in Jiangxi (died 1788)
 * probable
 * (b. 1730/1738): Aleijadinho, colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect (died 1814)
 * (b. 1730/1732): Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (died 1794)
 * Alexander Bannermann, English engraver (died unknown)
 * George Barret, Sr., Irish landscape artist (died 1784)
 * Gabriele Bella, Italian Baroque painter (died 1799)
 * Robert Carver, Irish painter especially of theater scenery (died 1791)
 * Dorning Rasbotham, English writer and painter (died 1791)

Deaths

 * February 12 – Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutista) (born 1663)
 * February 26 – Johann Peter Alexander Wagner, Rococo sculptor (died 1809)
 * March 30 – Jaime Mosen Ponz, Spanish painter (born 1671)
 * July 18 – Tommaso Dossi, Italian painter from Verona (born 1678)
 * October 25 – Johann Michael Rottmayr, Austrian painter (born 1656)
 * October 29 – Jean Louis Petitot, French enamel painter (born 1652)
 * October 30 – Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter of genre works (born 1655)
 * November 10 – Gregorio Lazzarini, Italian painter of religious subjects and those from history and mythology (born 1657)
 * November 21 – François de Troy, French painter, father of Jean-François de Troy (born 1645)
 * December – Alida Withoos, Dutch botanical artist and painter (born 1661/1662)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian still-life painter, active in Rome (born 1659)
 * Huang Ding, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (born 1650)
 * Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian engraver (born 1659)
 * Giovanni Battista Parodi, Italian fresco painter (born 1674)
 * Sieuwert van der Meulen, Dutch painter (born 1663)
 * Marc van Duvenede, Flemish painter (born 1674)
 * François-Alexandre Verdier, French painter, draftsman and engraver (born 1651)
 * probable
 * Pietro Nelli, Italian portrait painter (born 1672)
 * Clemente de Torres, Spanish Baroque painter of Genoese origin (born 1662)