# 1768 in art

Events from the year 1768 in art.

## Events

* December 10 – Royal Academy founded in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first President.
* Tilly Kettle becomes the first English painter to work in India.

## Works

* John Singleton Copley – Portrait of Thomas Gage
* Francis Cotes – The Young Cricketer
* Thomas Gainsborough
** Elizabeth and Thomas Linley (circa)
** Ignatius Sancho
* Sir Joshua Reynolds
** Mrs Abington as the Comic Muse (approximate date)
** Portrait of the Marquess of Rockingham
* Alexander Roslin – The Lady with the Veil (The Artist's Wife)
* Jacques Saly – Frederik V on Horseback (bronze cast)
* Dominic Serres – The Captured Spanish Fleet at Havana
* Benjamin West – General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian
* Joseph Wright of Derby – An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
* Johan Zoffany – Charles Macklin as Shylock

## Births

* March 2 – Benjamin Duterrau, English painter, etcher, engraver, sculptor and art lecturer (died 1851)
* March 10 – Domingos Sequeira, Portuguese painter (died 1837)
* March 19 – François Joseph Bosio, French sculptor (died 1845)
* April 18 – Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter of lithographs depicting the people of Brazil (died 1848)
* May 5 – Ezra Ames, American portrait painter (died 1836)
* June 29 – Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (died 1831)
* July 10 – Hendrik Voogd, Dutch painter and printmaker, who was active in Italy (died 1839)
* July 27 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement (died 1839)
* August 22 – Josef Abel, historical painter and etcher (died 1818)
* December 18 – Marie-Guillemine Benoist, French neoclassical, historical and genre painter (died 1826)
* December 22 – John Crome, English artist in the Romantic era (died 1821)
* date unknown
** Pierre Audouin, French engraver (died 1822)
** Juliane Wilhelmine Bause, German landscape etcher (died 1837)
** Andrey Yefimovich Martynov, Russian painter and engraver (died 1826)
** Charlotta Malm-Reuterholm, Finnish painter (died 1845)
** Vasily Rodchev, Russian history painter (died 1803)
** Peter Edward Stroehling, portrait artist from either Germany or the Russian Empire (died 1826)
** Elkanah Tisdale, American engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist (died 1835)

## Deaths

* January 26 – Tibout Regters, Dutch portrait painter (born 1710)
* April 10 – Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice (born 1697)
* April 14 – Francesco Monti, Italian fresco painter (born 1683)
* April 24 – Johann Valentin Tischbein, German theatre painter (born 1715)
* April 29 – Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor (born 1698)
* June 11 – Stefano Pozzi, Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator (died 1699/1707)
* August 18 – Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Italian Rococo painter from Florence (born 1692)
* August 24 – Isaac Basire, English engraver and head of family of engravers (born 1704)
* November 5 – Giorgio Duranti, Italian painter of still lifes (born 1683)
* December 8 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (born 1702)
* date unknown
** Johan Backman, Finnish painter (born 1706)
** Antonio Baldi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1692)
** Miguel Cabrera, indigenous Zapotec painter, (born 1695)
** Samuel Collins, British miniature painter (born 1735)
** Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Italian painter and engraver from Florence (born 1692)
** Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style (born 1685)