1759 in art

Events from the year 1759 in art.

Events

 * Thomas Gainsborough and his family move to Bath, England.

Works

 * Giambettino Cignaroli – Death of Cato
 * Thomas Gainsborough
 * Self-portrait
 * Thomas Wollaston
 * Joshua Reynolds – Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra Dissolving the Pearl
 * John Shackleton – George II (British Museum, London)

Births

 * January 21 – François Baillairgé, Canadian artist of woodworking, wood-carving and architecture (died 1830)
 * February 10 – Carlo Lasinio, Italian engraver (died 1838)
 * March 1 – Christian Gullager, Danish artist specializing in portraits and theatrical scenery (died 1826)
 * July 10 – Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Belgian flower painter (died 1840)
 * July 27 – Pierre Charles Baquoy, French painter and engraver especially of famous historical characters (died 1829)
 * August 15 – Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French miniature painter (died 1832)
 * August 16 – Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court (died 1818)
 * December 16 – Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, French physicist and painter (died 1832)
 * December 29 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter (died 1817)
 * date unknown
 * Jean-Baptiste Audebert, French natural history artist (died 1800)
 * Henri Auguste, Parisian gold- and silversmith (died 1816)
 * Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet, French historical painter (died 1842)
 * Adam Buck, Irish neo-classical portraitist and miniature painter (died 1833)
 * Antoine Michel Filhol, French engraver (died 1812)
 * John Frederick Miller, English illustrator (died 1796)
 * Rafael Ximeno y Planes, Spanish painter (died 1825)

Deaths

 * January 15 - Bernardo Germán de Llórente, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque period (born 1685)
 * March 27 – August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, miniature painter and naturalist (born 1705)
 * April 4 – Christoffer Foltmar, Danish painter of miniatures and organist (born 1718)
 * April 20 – Jeong Seon, Korean landscape painter (born 1676)
 * May 12 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (born 1700)
 * June 20 – Margareta Capsia, Finnish painter (born 1682)
 * July 25 - Theodoor Verhaegen, sculptor from the Southern Netherlands (born 1701)
 * September 27 – Gaetano Fanti, Italian fresco painter (born 1687)
 * date unknown
 * Placido Costanzi, Italian painter of the Costanzi family of artists (born 1702)
 * Bernardo de' Dominici, Italian art historian and painter (born 1683)
 * Alberto Pullicino, Maltese painter (born 1719)
 * Wang Shishen, Chinese painter (born 1686)
 * Kaspar Anton von Baroni-Cavalcabo, Italian painter (born 1682)