1750 in art

Events from the year 1750 in art.

Events

 * The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia is founded by the Venetian Senate as Venice’s school of painting, sculpture, and architecture, with Giovanni Battista Piazzetta as its first president.
 * Marcello Bacciarelli enters the service of Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.

Works

 * Jean Barbault paints Neapolitan Herder and a Cow leaving a Cave (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, France)
 * Canaletto paints
 * Bacino di S. Marco: From the Piazzetta (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia)
 * The Thames from the Terrace of Somerset House, Looking toward St. Paul's (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut)
 * A View of the Molo and the Riva degli Schiavone in Venice (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
 * Andrea Casali paints Lucretia (approximate date)
 * Nihâl Chand paints Bani Thani (approximate date)
 * Filippo della Valle carves the Annunziata bas-relief at Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome
 * Georg Desmarées paints The Artist with his daughter Antonia (approximate date) and Portrait of Maria Rosa Walburga von Soyer
 * Thomas Gainsborough paints Mr and Mrs Andrews
 * William Hogarth paints the satirical The March of the Guards to Finchley
 * Maruyama Okyo paints The Ghost of Oyuki in ink on silk
 * Frans van der Mijn paints a portrait of the English politician, architect and collector Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet
 * Claude Joseph Vernet paints a Times of Day series

Births

 * March 9 – Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (Leipziger Tischbein), German painter (died 1812)
 * June 5 – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (died 1817)
 * July 21 – Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (died 1850)
 * October 30 – Jan Bulthuis, Dutch draftsman and painter (died 1801)
 * December 6 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (died 1819)
 * December 8 – Giuseppe Cades, Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver (died 1799)
 * date unknown
 * Luigi Agricola, Italian painter and jeweler (died 1821)
 * John Boyne, British water-colour painter (died 1810)
 * P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, French draughtsman and engraver (died unknown)
 * Manuel de la Cruz, Spanish painter (died 1792)
 * John Downman, English portrait painter (died 1824)
 * George Engleheart, English painter of portrait miniatures (died 1829)
 * Ludwig Guttenbrunn, Austrian painter (died 1816)
 * Francesco Pozzi, Italian engraver (died 1805)
 * Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (died 1808)
 * Stefano Tofanelli, Italian painter during the Neoclassic period (died 1810)
 * François Marie Suzanne, French sculptor, who created a terracotta figure of Benjamin Franklin in 1793

Deaths

 * March 7 – Cornelis Troost, Dutch painter (born 1697)
 * April - Guillaume Taraval, Swedish painter of French descent (born 1701)
 * April 29 – Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor (born 1692)
 * June 25 - Diego Francesco Carlone, Italian sculptor (born 1674)
 * July 31 – Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer (born 1695)
 * August 12 – Rachel Ruysch, Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers (born 1664)
 * August 20 – Nishikawa Sukenobu, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker from Kyoto (born 1671)
 * date unknown
 * Francesco Boccaccino, Italian painter, born at Cremona (born 1680)
 * Mattia Bortoloni, Italian Rococo painter (born 1696)
 * Leonardo Coccorante, Italian painter especially of large, highly detailed landscapes with imaginary classical architectural ruins (born 1680)
 * Antonio David, Italian portrait painter, especially of the House of Stuart (born 1698)
 * Jan Griffier II, English painter (born 1688)
 * Philipp Ferdinand de Hamilton, painter from the Southern Netherlands active in Austria (born 1664)
 * probable – Robert Griffier, Dutch landscape painter (born 1688)