1770 in art

Events from the year 1770 in art.

Events

 * Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of twenty-six.

Works

 * Thomas Gainsborough – approximate date
 * The Blue Boy
 * Portrait of David Garrick
 * Thomas Linley
 * Sir Joshua Reynolds – Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers
 * Alexander Roslin
 * Portrait of the artist's wife (Marie-Suzanne Giroust)
 * Portrait of Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden
 * George Stubbs
 * A Horse Frightened by a Lion (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
 * A Lion Attacking a Horse (Yale University Art Gallery)
 * Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo – The Immaculate Conception with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola (approximate date)
 * Benjamin West – The Death of General Wolfe

Births

 * January 13 – Anatole Devosge, French painter (died 1850)
 * February 12 – Jean-Jacques Karpff, French painter, designer and miniaturist (died 1829)
 * February 21 – Antonio Pasini, Italian painter and manuscript illuminator (died 1845)
 * March 12 – Karl August Senff, Baltic German painter, engraver and teacher (died 1838)
 * c. March 25 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (died 1843)
 * April 12 – George Clint, English portrait painter and engraver (died 1854)
 * April 18 – Ludwig Buchhorn, German painter and engraver (died 1856)
 * May 4 – François Gérard, Italian-born French painter (died 1837)
 * June 1 – Michael Sigismund Frank, glass painter (died 1847)
 * July 3 – Thomas Pardoe, English enameler noted for flower painting (died 1823)
 * October 18 – Thomas Phillips, English portrait and subject painter (died 1845)
 * November 15 – Louis Lafitte, French painter, designer, illustrator and muralist (died 1828)
 * November 19 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (died 1844)
 * November 30 – John Buckler, British draughtsman and engraver (died 1851)
 * date unknown
 * Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur (died 1812)
 * Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, French painter and miniaturist (died 1856)
 * Richard Duppa, English writer and a draughtsman (died 1831)
 * Julien-Joseph Ducorron, Belgian landscape painter (died 1848)
 * Johann Christian Eberlein, German painter (died 1815)
 * Johannes Jelgerhuis, painter and actor from the Northern Netherlands (died 1836)
 * Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, French painter (died 1826)
 * John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (died 1819)
 * Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, portraitist and museum director (died 1852)
 * 1765/1770: Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect and sculptor-decorator (died 1845)

Deaths

 * January 2 – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German Rococo stuccoist and sculptor (born 1696)
 * January 8 – John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor (born 1694)
 * February 17 – Louis René Vialy, French painter (born 1680)
 * March 5 – Gaetano Chiaveri, Italian Baroque architect and master builder, most notable for his work as part of the second phase of the Dresden Baroque (born 1689)
 * March 23 – Martin van Meytens, Austrian portrait painter (born 1695)
 * March 27
 * José Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor (born 1705)
 * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (born 1696)
 * May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (born 1703)
 * July 7 – Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style (born 1724)
 * July 16 – Francis Cotes, English painter (born 1726)
 * November 1 – Gaspare Traversi, Italian painter (born c.1722)
 * December 1 – Giambettino Cignaroli, Italian painter (born 1718)
 * December 24 – Pierre-Philippe Mignot, French sculptor (born 1715)
 * date unknown
 * Guillaume Philippe Benoist, French line engraver (born 1725)
 * Domenico Duprà, Italian rococo court painter (born 1689)
 * Isabel Jolís Oliver, Spanish printer and engraver (born 1682)
 * Giuseppe Pedretti, Italian painter of lunettes and altarpieces (born 1694)
 * Maria Felice Tibaldi, Italian painter (born 1707)
 * probable
 * Apollonio Domenichini, Italian painter of vedute, active in Venice, between 1740 and 1770 (born 1715)
 * Susanna Drury, Irish painter chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings (born 1698)
 * Dimitrije Bačević, Serbian icon painter and muralist (born 1735).