# 1746 in art

Events from the year 1746 in art.

## Events

* The Venetian painter Canaletto moves to London, beginning a nine-year stay in England to be closer to his market.
* The French philosopher Charles Batteux publishes Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of les beaux arts, the fine arts.

## Paintings

* Canaletto
** A Most Beautiful View of the City of London Taken Through One of the Centres of the Arches of the New Bridge at Westminster (Alnwick Castle, Northumberland)
** Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames (c.1746-47; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut)
* Elias Gottlob Haussmann – Johann Sebastian Bach
* Thomas Hudson – Theodore Jacobsen
* John Smybert – Sir William Pepperrell, Bt
* Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - St. Catherine of Siena

## Births

* March 9 – François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor (died 1832)
* March 22 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (died 1822)
* March 30 – Francisco Goya, Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker (died 1828)
* June 6 – Francesco Saverio Mergalo, Italian portrait painter of the Rococo or late-Baroque period (died 1786)
* October 22 – James Northcote, English painter (died 1831)
* November 11 – Jean Guillaume Moitte, French sculptor (died 1810)
* December 30 – François-André Vincent, French painter (died 1816)
* date unknown
** Luis Paret y Alcázar, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (died 1799)
** Anthonie Andriessen, Dutch landscape painter (died 1813)
** William Ashford, British painter who worked exclusively in Ireland (died 1824)
** Domenico Aspari, Italian painter and engraver (died 1831)
** Etienne Aubry, French painter of primarily portraits and genre subjects (died 1781)
** Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (died 1793)
** John Bogle, Scottish miniature painter (died 1803)
** Joseph Boze, French portrait and miniature painter (died 1826)
** Teodor Ilić Češljar, one of the best late Baroque and Rococo Serbian painters from the region of Vojvodina (died 1793)
** Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher (died 1807)
** Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver (died 1793)
** Xi Gang, renowned Chinese calligrapher and painter in Qing Dynasty (died 1803)
** Philippe-Laurent Roland, French sculptor (died 1816)
** Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver (died 1801)
** Henry Walton, British painter and art dealer (died 1813)

## Deaths

* February 22 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor and academician (born 1677)
* March 20 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (born 1656)
* March 29 – Matteo Ripa, painter, engraver and missionary (born 1682)
* June 8 – Giacomo Leoni, architect (born 1686)
* July 30 – Francesco Trevisani, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1656)
* December 31 – Antonio Baroni, Italian painter active in Verona (born 1678)
* date unknown
** Domenico Bocciardo, Italian painter, active in Genoa (born 1680)
** Jan Baptist Bosschaert, Flemish painter (born 1667)
** Sebastiano Galeotti, peripatetic Italian painter (born 1656)
** Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue, Italian potter and painter (born 1686)
** Theodor van Pee, Dutch painter (born 1668)