# 1760 in art

Events from the year 1760 in art.

## Events

* 21 April – First Exhibition opens in London. Organised by the Royal Society of Arts, it was the first public exhibition of contemporary art in Britain.
* Autumn – Johann Zoffany moves to London.
* Galleria nazionale di Parma established.

## Paintings

* Thomas Gainsborough
** Portrait of Ann Ford
** The Artist`s Daughters, Molly and Peggy
** Sunset
* Tilly Kettle – Self-portrait, his first surviving painting
* Joshua Reynolds
** Laurence Sterne
** Portrait of Mrs Day

## Births

* January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (died 1832)
* January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (died 1826)
* March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (died 1832)
* March 4 – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey (died 1830)
* March 6 – Dora Stock, portrait painter (died 1832)
* March 16 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (died 1832)
* April 13 – Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter (died 1830)
* May 31 – George Garrard, English artist (died 1826)
* June 11 - Maria Cosway, Italian-English painter, engraver, composer, musician, and society hostess (died 1838)
* August 3 – Jacques Réattu, French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome (died 1833)
* October 1 – William Thomas Beckford, art critic (died 1844)
* October 12 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists (died 1826)
* October 31? – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (died 1849)
* November 11 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (died 1834)
* December 11 - Pierre Petitot, French sculptor (died 1840)
* date unknown
** Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver (died 1832)
** Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, furniture designer (died 1844)
** Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1839)
** Pieter Faes, Dutch painter of flowers and fruit (died 1814)
** Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter (died 1811)
** John Christian Rauschner, German portrait painter and sculptor (died unknown)
** Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist (died 1807)
** Jacob Schnebbelie, English illustrator and engraver (died 1792)
** Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegory, historical, and portrait painter (died 1820)
* probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (died 1802)

## Deaths

* January 23 – Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, an Italian painter, 1756 co-founder of the Venetian Academy (born 1699)
* April 11 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter (born 1675)
* July 18 – Philip Mercier, portrait painter (born 1690)
* November 20 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter (born 1717)
* December 21 – Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver (born 1709)
* date unknown
** Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker (born 1702)
** Francesco Conti, Venetian painter (born 1681)
** Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (born 1723)
** Yi Insang, Korean painter and government officer of the late Joseon period (born 1710)
** Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (born 1727)
** Shen Quan, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1682)
** Margaretha Wulfraet, Dutch painter (born 1678)
** Yi Insang, Korean painter of the later Joseon period (born 1710)