1755 in art

Events

• Canaletto returns from England to Venice, where he continues painting until his death in 1768.
• 25 August – The Salon of 1755 opens at the Louvre in Paris

Paintings

• François Boucher – Landscape with a Watermill
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Musical Contest
• William Hogarth – Sealing the Tomb
• John Shackleton – George II (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh)

Births

• January 30 - Richard Collins, English chief miniature and enamel painter to George III (died 1831)
• February - Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (died 1822)
• February 6 – Henry Bone, English enamel painter (died 1834)
• February 13 - Philibert-Louis Debucourt, French painter and engraver (died 1832)
• April 9 - William Birch, English miniature painter and engraver (died 1834)
• April 16 – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842)
• July 6 – John Flaxman, sculptor (died 1826)
• July 14 - Charles-Antoine Clevenbergh, Flemish painter of still-life (died 1810)
• August 4 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, painter and inventor of the pencil (died 1805)
• August 17 – Thomas Stothard, English painter and engraver (died 1834)
• September 8 - Petrus Johannes van Regemorter, Flemish landscape and genre painter (died 1830)
• November 16 - Marie Jeanne Clemens, Danish engraver and painter, member of Danish Academy of Fine Arts (died 1791)
• December 3 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter (died 1828)
• December 4 – Franz Caucig, Slovene painter and drawer (died 1828)
• date unknown
  • Prince Hoare, English painter and dramatist (died 1834)
  • Philip Jean, English miniaturist painter (died 1802)
  • Luigi Mayer, Italian-German painter (died 1803)
  • Filippo Pennino, Italian sculptor (died 1801)

Deaths

• March 6 – Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome (born 1674)
• April 30 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French Rococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer (born 1686)
• May 23 - Juan Antonio García de Bouzas, Spanish painter (born 1680)
• May 25 – Gustavus Hesselius, Swedish-American painter (born 1682)
• date unknown
  • Pietro Anderlini, Italian painter of the Rococo period (born 1687)
  • Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu (born 1696)
  • Jean-Louis Lemoyne, French sculptor (born 1665)
  • Giovanni Agostino Ratti, Italian cabinet painter, engraver, and constructed scenography (born 1699)
  • Odoardo Vicinelli, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (born 1684)
• probable (died 1755/1759) – Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, painter of Italian or Lombard heritage (born 1677)

References

References

1. Baetjer, Katharine. ''French Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Early Eighteenth Century through the Revolution''. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019. p.29
2. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/francois-boucher-landscape-with-a-watermill
3. Magill, Frank N.. (1999). "The 17th and 18th Centuries: Dictionary of World Biography, Volume 4". Routledge.