# 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
** The Oath of Hannibal
* Richard Wilson – On Hounslow Heath

## 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).