1747 in art

Events from the year 1747 in art.

Events

 * August – Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, writes an influential letter on the subject of the Paris Salon.
 * Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo joins the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Later in the year he marries Marie-Marguerite Lebrun.

Works

 * Francis Bindon – Portrait of Richard Baldwin, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
 * Canaletto – London seen through an arch of Westminster Bridge (c. 1746–47)
 * Thomas Gainsborough – Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting (Tate Britain)
 * Matthäus Günther – Frescos in Amorbach Abbey (1742–47)
 * Charles-Joseph Natoire
 * Portrait of Louis, Dauphin of France
 * Saint Stephen and the False Witnesses (for Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés)
 * Triumph of Bacchus (Musée du Louvre)
 * Gervase Spencer – Portrait miniatures

Births

 * January 4 – Dominique Vivant, French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist (died 1825)
 * March 8 – Johann Peter Melchior, German porcelain modeller (died 1825)
 * September 30 – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (died 1822)
 * December 8 – Louis Gerverot, French porcelain painter (died 1829)
 * date unknown
 * William Ellis, English engraver (died 1810)
 * Giuseppe Quaglio, Italian painter and stage designer (died 1828)
 * Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottière, French decorative painter (died 1820)
 * Margareta Seuerling, Swedish actor and theater director (died 1820)
 * Shiba Kōkan, born Andō Kichirō, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1818)
 * Francis Wheatley, English painter and engraver (died 1801)

Deaths

 * January 26 – Willem van Mieris, Dutch painter from Leyden (born 1662)
 * April 3 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and draughtsmen (born 1657)
 * July 17 – Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (born 1665)
 * November 7 – Giuseppe Melani, Italian painter, active mainly in Pisa (born 1673)
 * date unknown
 * Elias Baeck, German painter and engraver (born 1679)
 * Maurice Baquoy, French engraver (born 1680)
 * Giovanni Battista Canossa, Italian wood engraver (born unknown)
 * Claude Charles, French historical and decorative painter (born 1661)
 * Tommaso Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (born 1700)
 * Michael Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter (born 1690)