1761 in art

Events from the year 1761 in art.

Events

 * May 9 – Society of Artists of Great Britain exhibition opens in London. Exhibitors include Gainsborough, Hogarth and Nollekens, and Stubbs shows a painting for the first time (A Stallion Called Romulus).
 * Scottish-born artist Allan Ramsay appointed to succeed John Shackelton as Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III of Great Britain.

Works

 * François-Hubert Drouais – The children of the comte de Bethune playing the guitar
 * Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Susannah "Suky" Trevelyan
 * William Hogarth – The Five Orders of Perriwigs as they were Worn at the Late Coronation Measured Architectonically (satirical engraving)
 * Anton Raphael Mengs
 * Parnassus (ceiling fresco for Villa Albani, Rome)
 * Portrait of Charles III of Spain
 * Joshua Reynolds
 * David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy
 * Georgiana, Countess Spencer, and Her Daughter
 * The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke (probable date)
 * Louis-François Roubiliac – Memorials to Handel and Lady Elizabeth Nightingale in Westminster Abbey

Births

 * January 24 – Johann Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher (died 1847)
 * January 28 – Marguerite Gérard, French painter and etcher (died 1837)
 * March – John Laporte, English landscape painter and etcher (died 1839)
 * April 10 – Jacques-Edme Dumont, French sculptor (died 1844)
 * May 16 – John Opie, Cornish historical and portrait painter (died 1807)
 * June 29 – Jacques Kuyper, Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer (died 1808)
 * July 5 – Louis-Léopold Boilly, French painter (died 1845)
 * October 11 – Mather Brown, American-born portrait and historical painter (died 1831)
 * October 21 – Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, French artist, map-maker and close strategic advisor of Napoleon (died 1824)
 * September 6 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (died 1818)
 * November 4 – Bertrand Andrieu, French engraver and medalist (died 1822)
 * December 1 – Marie Tussaud, French-born wax modeller of the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (died 1850)
 * date unknown
 * Jan Frans Eliaerts, Flemish painter of animals, flowers and fruit (died 1848)
 * William Fowler, English artist (died 1832)
 * Charles Hayter, English painter (died 1835)
 * Sakai Hōitsu, Japanese painter of the Rinpa school (died 1828)
 * Zhang Yin, Chinese calligrapher and painter of Qing Dynasty (died 1829)
 * probable – Robert Fagan, Irish painter, diplomat and archaeologist (died 1816)

Deaths

 * April 4 – Theodore Gardelle, painter and enameller (born 1722) (executed for murder)
 * April 30 – Jean Duvivier, French medallist (born 1687)
 * July 13 – Claes Lang, Finnish painter (born 1690)
 * July 16 – Jacob Fortling, German-Danish sculptor, architect and manufacturer (born 1711)
 * July 21 – Louis Galloche, French painter (born 1670)
 * August 18 – François Gaspard Adam, French rococo sculptor (born 1710)
 * September 7 – Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, German painter (born 1702)
 * December 10 – Johann Georg Platzer, Austrian painter of primarily historical and mythical scenes (born 1704)
 * date unknown
 * August Querfurt, Austrian painter (born 1696)
 * Mary Roberts, miniaturist
 * Pieter Tanjé, engraver from the Northern Netherlands (born 1706)
 * Ivan Vishnyakov, Russian painter (born 1699)