1760 in art

Events from the year 1760 in art.

Events

 * Autumn – Johann Zoffany moves to London.
 * Galleria nazionale di Parma established.

Paintings

 * Thomas Gainsborough
 * Anne Ford
 * The Artist`s Daughters, Molly and Peggy
 * Sunset
 * Tilly Kettle – Self-portrait, his first surviving painting
 * Joshua Reynolds
 * Laurence Sterne
 * Portrait of Mrs Day

Births

 * January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (died 1832)
 * January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (died 1826)
 * March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (died 1832)
 * March 4 – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey (died 1830)
 * March 6 – Dora Stock, portrait painter (died 1832)
 * March 16 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (died 1832)
 * April 13 – Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter (died 1830)
 * May 31 – George Garrard, English artist (died 1826)
 * June 11 - Maria Cosway, Italian-English painter, engraver, composer, musician, and society hostess (died 1838)
 * August 3 – Jacques Réattu, French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome (died 1833)
 * October 1 – William Thomas Beckford, art critic (died 1844)
 * October 12 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists (died 1826)
 * October 31? – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (died 1849)
 * November 11 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (died 1834)
 * December 11 - Pierre Petitot, French sculptor (died 1840)
 * date unknown
 * Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver (died 1832)
 * Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, furniture designer (died 1844)
 * Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1839)
 * Pieter Faes, Dutch painter of flowers and fruit (died 1814)
 * Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter (died 1811)
 * John Christian Rauschner, German portrait painter and sculptor (died unknown)
 * Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist (died 1807)
 * Jacob Schnebbelie, English illustrator and engraver (died 1792)
 * Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegory, historical, and portrait painter (died 1820)
 * probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (died 1802)

Deaths

 * January 23 – Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, an Italian painter, 1756 co-founder of the Venetian Academy (born 1699)
 * April 11 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter (born 1675)
 * July 18 – Philip Mercier, portrait painter (born 1690)
 * November 20 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter (born 1717)
 * December 21 – Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver (born 1709)
 * date unknown
 * Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker (born 1702)
 * Francesco Conti, Venetian painter (born 1681)
 * Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (born 1723)
 * Yi Insang, Korean painter and government officer of the late Joseon period (born 1710)
 * Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (born 1727)
 * Shen Quan, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1682)
 * Margaretha Wulfraet, Dutch painter (born 1678)
 * Yi Insang, Korean painter of the later Joseon period (born 1710)