1765 in art

Events from the year 1765 in art.

Events

 * June 12 – The death of General John Guise in London activates his 1760 bequest of a large collection of Old Master paintings to his alma mater, Christ Church, Oxford, where they are assembled in 1767 as the foundation of Christ Church Picture Gallery.
 * September 23 - G. Van Oostrum's collection of paintings is sold at auction in The Hague. Smiling Girl, a Courtesan, Holding an Obscene Image is lot 241.
 * The Uffizi in Florence is officially opened to the public as an art gallery.
 * Irish sculptor Christopher Hewetson and American painter Henry Benbridge arrive in Rome, where Hewetson settles.
 * The Hermitage Museum acquires the art collection of Heinrich von Brühl, including Perseus and Andromeda by Rubens.

Works

 * Francis Cotes – Portrait of Maria Walpole, Countess Waldegrave
 * Nathaniel Dance – William Weddell, The Reverend William Palgrave and Mr Janson in Rome
 * Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The High Priest Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe
 * Anton Graff – Self-portrait
 * Tilly Kettle – Portrait of Mrs. Yates as Mandane in 'The Orphan of China' (approximate date; Tate Britain)
 * William Pars – The Parthenon when it contained a mosque (Published in James Stuart and Nicholas Revett, The Antiquities of Athens, London, 1789)
 * Joshua Reynolds
 * Portrait of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore
 * Robert Clive and his family with an Indian maid
 * George Stubbs – Portrait of a Hunting Tyger (Cheetah with two Indian attendants and a stag)
 * Richard Wilson – Lake Avernus I (approximate date)

Births

 * February 21 – Michał Ceptowski, Bavarian born stucco artist who settles and worked in Poland (died 1829)
 * March 3 – Francesco Alberi, Italian painter of historical scenes and frescoes (died 1836)
 * March 7 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor and pioneer photographer (died 1833)
 * April 1 – Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian artist (died 1810)
 * May 7 – Giovanni Monti, Italian landscape painter (died 1825)
 * May 13 – Vieira Portuense, Portuguese painter (died 1805)
 * June 10 – Cladius Detlev Fritzsch, also known as C. D. Fritzsch, Danish flower painter (died 1841)
 * December 3 – Adélaïde Dufrénoy, French poet and painter from Brittany (died 1825)
 * date unknown
 * Pietro Bonato, Italian painter and engraver (died 1820)
 * Edme-François-Étienne Gois, French sculptor (died 1836)
 * Thomas Kirk, British painter and engraver (died 1797)
 * Domenico Vantini, Italian painter specializing in portrait miniatures (died 1825)
 * 1765/1770 – Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect and sculptor-decorator (died 1845)

Deaths

 * February 10 – Jean-Baptiste-Henri Deshays, French painter (born 1729)
 * April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath, scientist, writer and mosaic artist (born 1711)
 * May – Joseph Badger, American portrait artist (born 1707)
 * July 15 – Charles-André van Loo, French subject painter (born 1705), and a younger brother of Jean-Baptiste van Loo
 * August 1 – Ulla Adlerfelt, Swedish painter and noblewoman (born 1736)
 * August 18 – Jean-Joseph Balechou, French engraver (born 1715)
 * September 5 – Johann Christian Fiedler, German portrait painter (born 1697)
 * October 21 – Giovanni Paolo Pannini or Panini, Italian painter and architect, mainly known as one of the vedutisti or veduta or view painters (born 1691)
 * December 5 – Johann Salomon Wahl, German painter who became court painter in Denmark (born 1689)
 * date unknown
 * Pietro Campana, Spanish engraver (born 1727)
 * Giovanni Battista Chiappe, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (born 1723)
 * Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (born 1703)
 * Ercole Graziani the Younger, Italian painter (born 1688)
 * James MacArdell, Irish engraver of mezzotints (born 1729)
 * Zheng Xie, Chinese painter of orchids, bamboo, and stones; one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (born 1693)
 * Giampietro Zanotti, Italian painter and art historian (born 1674)
 * Jacopo Zoboli, Italian etcher and painter of altarpieces and portraits (born 1700)