page_title: 18th century
section_title: Visual artists, painters, sculptors, printmakers, architects
hierarchical_section_title: 18th century / Significant people / Visual artists, painters, sculptors, printmakers, architects
context_page_description: The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 to December 31, 1800. During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. The age saw violent slave trading and human trafficking on a global scale. The reactions against monarchical and aristocratic power helped fuel the revolutionary responses against it throughout the century.
  The period is also known as the "century of lights" or the "century of reason". In continental Europe, philosophers dreamed of a brighter age. For some, this dream turned into a reality with the French Revolution of 1789, though this was later compromised by the excesses of the Reign of Terror. At first, many monarchies of Europe embraced Enlightenment ideals, but in the wake of the French Revolution they feared loss of power and formed broad coalitions for counter-revolution. The Ottoman Empire experienced an unprecedented period of peace and economic expansion, taking part in no European wars from 1740 to 1768.
context_section_description: John James Audubon, French painter
  John Baskerville, British printer and typographer (founder of Baskerville font, Birmingham)
  Bernardo Bellotto, Italian painter
  Michel Benoist, French painter, architect, missionary in China
  William Blake, English artist and poet
  Edmé Bouchardon, French sculptor
  François Boucher, French painter
  Canaletto, Italian painter
  Rosalba Carriera, Italian painter
  Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian painter, architect, missionary in China
  Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter
  Vasili Bazhenov, Russian architect
  Karl Blank, Russian architect
  Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter
  Leonardo Coccorante, Italian painter
  John Singleton Copley, American painter
  Jacques-Louis David, French painter
  Yury Felten, Russian architect
  Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Austrian architect
  Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor
  Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter
  Gai Qi, Chinese painter, poet
  Thomas Gainsborough, English painter
  Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter
  Jean-Baptiste Greuze,  French painter
  Giuseppe Grisoni, Italian painter
  Francesco Guardi, Italian painter
  Jacob Philipp Hackert, German painter
  Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Austrian-Italian architect
  William Hogarth, English painter and engraver
  Angelica Kauffman, Austrian painter
  Matvey Kazakov, Russian architect
  Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German painter and architect
  Alexander Kokorinov, Russian architect
  Mikhail Ivanovich Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor
  Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, French sculptor, student of his father
  Jean-Louis Lemoyne, French sculptor
  Dmitry Levitzky, Russian painter
  Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss painter
  Jiang Tingxi, Chinese artist and scholar
  Robert Le Lorrain, French sculptor
  Ivan Martos, Russian sculptor
  Constance Mayer, French painter
  Luis Egidio Meléndez, Spanish painter
  Antoine Ignace Melling, French-German painter, architect
  Louis Montoyer, Belgian architect
  Nishikawa Sukenobu, Japanese printmaker, teacher
  Giovanni Paolo Panini, Italian painter
  Ulrika Pasch, Swedish painter
  Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian painter
  Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (Saxony)
  Bartolomeo Rastrelli, Italian-born Russian architect
  Joshua Reynolds, English painter
  Rachel Ruysch, Dutch painter
  Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian-born Russian architect
  Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor
  Gilbert Stuart, American painter
  Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock printer
  Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Venetian painter
  Domenico Trezzini, Italian-born Russian architect
  Kitagawa Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter
  Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect
  Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter
  Juan de Villanueva, Spanish architect
  Marie-Denise Villers, French painter
  Antoine Watteau, French painter
  Yuan Mei, Chinese painter, poet, essayist
  Mikhail Zemtsov, Russian architect
caption: Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
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