# 1730 in art

Events from the year 1730 in art.

## Events

* Pope Clement XII commissions Nicola Salvi to renovate the Trevi Fountain

## Works

* Canaletto
** The Bacino di San Marco (National Museum Cardiff)
** The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute
** The Molo Looking East
** Venice: the Grand Canal with S. Maria della Salute towards the Riva degli Schiavoni (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
* Rosalba Carriera – Flora
* William Hogarth
** A Children's Party
** A House of Cards
* Henry Scheemakers – Memorial to Sir Francis Page and Frances, Lady Page (Steeple Aston church, Oxfordshire)
* Enoch Seeman – Portrait of King George I
* Hamlet Winstanley – Portrait of Bishop Edward Waddington

## Births

* January 15 – Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna (died 1766)
* January 22 – Johan Edvard Mandelberg, Swedish-born painter (died 1786)
* April 1 – Solomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (died 1788)
* April 11 – Josef Kramolín, Czech fresco painter (died 1802)
* July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (died 1795)
* July 31 – Charles-Antoine Bridan, French sculptor (died 1805)
* September 19 – Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (died 1809)
* November 2 – Giovanni Battista Casanova, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1795)
* November 3 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (died 1819)
* date unknown
** Jacques-François Amand, French historical painter (died 1769)
** James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake (died 1802)
** Antonio Capellini, Italian engraver (died unknown)
** Niccolò Carissa, Italian painter of still-life specimens of flowers, vegetables, and birds (died unknown)
** Teodor Kračun, Serbian painter, active mainly in North Serbia (died 1781)
** Niccolò Lapiccola, Italian painter (died 1790)
** Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (died 1780)
** Min Zhen, Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang in Jiangxi (died 1788)
* probable
** (b. 1730/1738): Aleijadinho, colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect (died 1814)
** (b. 1730/1732): Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (died 1794)
** Alexander Bannermann, English engraver (died unknown)
** George Barret, Sr., Irish landscape artist (died 1784)
** Gabriele Bella, Italian Baroque painter (died 1799)
** Robert Carver, Irish painter especially of theater scenery (died 1791)
** Dorning Rasbotham, English writer and painter (died 1791)

## Deaths

* February 12 – Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutista) (born 1663)
* February 26 – Johann Peter Alexander Wagner, Rococo sculptor (died 1809)
* March 30 – Jaime Mosen Ponz, Spanish painter (born 1671)
* July 18 – Tommaso Dossi, Italian painter from Verona (born 1678)
* October 25 – Johann Michael Rottmayr, Austrian painter (born 1656)
* October 29 – Jean Louis Petitot, French enamel painter (born 1652)
* October 30 – Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter of genre works (born 1655)
* November 10 – Gregorio Lazzarini, Italian painter of religious subjects and those from history and mythology (born 1657)
* November 21 – François de Troy, French painter, father of Jean-François de Troy (born 1645)
* December – Alida Withoos, Dutch botanical artist and painter (born 1661/1662)
* date unknown
** Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian still-life painter, active in Rome (born 1659)
** Huang Ding, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (born 1650)
** Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian engraver (born 1659)
** Giovanni Battista Parodi, Italian fresco painter (born 1674)
** Sieuwert van der Meulen, Dutch painter (born 1663)
** Marc van Duvenede, Flemish painter (born 1674)
** François-Alexandre Verdier, French painter, draftsman and engraver (born 1651)
* probable
** Pietro Nelli, Italian portrait painter (born 1672)
** Clemente de Torres, Spanish Baroque painter of Genoese origin (born 1662)