1746 in art

Events from the year 1746 in art.

Events

 * The Venetian painter Canaletto moves to London, beginning a nine-year stay in England to be closer to his market.
 * The French philosopher Charles Batteux publishes Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of les beaux arts, the fine arts.

Paintings

 * Canaletto
 * A Most Beautiful View of the City of London Taken Through One of the Centres of the Arches of the New Bridge at Westminster (Alnwick Castle, Northumberland)
 * Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames (c.1746-47; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut)
 * Elias Gottlob Haussmann – Johann Sebastian Bach
 * Thomas Hudson – Theodore Jacobsen
 * John Smybert – Sir William Pepperrell, Bt
 * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - St. Catherine of Siena

Births

 * March 9 – François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor (died 1832)
 * March 22 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (died 1822)
 * March 30 – Francisco Goya, Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker (died 1828)
 * June 6 – Francesco Saverio Mergalo, Italian portrait painter of the Rococo or late-Baroque period (died 1786)
 * October 22 – James Northcote, English painter (died 1831)
 * November 11 – Jean Guillaume Moitte, French sculptor (died 1810)
 * December 30 – François-André Vincent, French painter (died 1816)
 * date unknown
 * Luis Paret y Alcázar, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (died 1799)
 * Anthonie Andriessen, Dutch landscape painter (died 1813)
 * William Ashford, British painter who worked exclusively in Ireland (died 1824)
 * Domenico Aspari, Italian painter and engraver (died 1831)
 * Etienne Aubry, French painter of primarily portraits and genre subjects (died 1781)
 * Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (died 1793)
 * John Bogle, Scottish miniature painter (died 1803)
 * Joseph Boze, French portrait and miniature painter (died 1826)
 * Teodor Ilić Češljar, one of the best late Baroque and Rococo Serbian painters from the region of Vojvodina (died 1793)
 * Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher (died 1807)
 * Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver (died 1793)
 * Xi Gang, renowned Chinese calligrapher and painter in Qing Dynasty (died 1803)
 * Philippe-Laurent Roland, French sculptor (died 1816)
 * Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver (died 1801)
 * Henry Walton, British painter and art dealer (died 1813)

Deaths

 * February 22 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor and academician (born 1677)
 * March 20 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (born 1656)
 * March 29 – Matteo Ripa, painter, engraver and missionary (born 1682)
 * June 8 – Giacomo Leoni, architect (born 1686)
 * July 30 – Francesco Trevisani, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1656)
 * December 31 – Antonio Baroni, Italian painter active in Verona (born 1678)
 * date unknown
 * Domenico Bocciardo, Italian painter, active in Genoa (born 1680)
 * Jan Baptist Bosschaert, Flemish painter (born 1667)
 * Sebastiano Galeotti, peripatetic Italian painter (born 1656)
 * Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue, Italian potter and painter (born 1686)
 * Theodor van Pee, Dutch painter (born 1668)