1766 in art
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Events from the year 1766 in art.
Events
- 21 April – The Exhibition of 1766 opens at Spring Gardens in London[1]
- 19 July – A baronetcy is created for British sculptor Henry Cheere.[2]
- England's oldest surviving Georgian theatre is constructed in Stockton-on-Tees.
- The Drottningholm Palace Theatre is reopened as an opera house in Stockholm, Sweden, in its surviving form, designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz.
- Denis Diderot's Essais sur la peinture is published.
Works
- Nathaniel Dance-Holland – The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas[3]
- Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of David Garrick with a bust of Shakespeare (probably originally painted; lost)
- Jean-Antoine Houdon – Bruno of Cologne (sculpture for Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome)
- Hubert Robert – A View of Ripetta
- Maruyama Ōkyo – Crows
- Allan Ramsay – Portrait of David Hume
- Joshua Reynolds – Portrait of John Burgoyne
- Joseph Wright of Derby – A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery[4]
Births
- March 1 – Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling (died 1819)[5]
- March 2 – Thomas Henry, French painter and art patron (died 1836)
- March 16 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, artist and explorer (died 1875)
- April 1 – François-Xavier Fabre, French painter of historical subjects (died 1837)[6]
- April 6 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (died 1853)
- September 16 – Jes Bundsen, Danish architectural and landscape painter and etcher (died 1829)
- October 14 – Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (died 1838)
- December 22 – Johann Samuel Arnhold, German painter in oil and water-colours, and on porcelain and enamel (died 1827)
- December 25 – Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (died 1844)[7]
- date unknown
- Pierre-Charles Bridan, French sculptor (died 1836)[8]
- Mariano Gerada, sculptor and woodworker (died 1823)
Deaths
- January 7 – Giacomo Boni, Italian painter (born 1688)
- January 19 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter (born 1695)[9]
- March 4 – Joseph Aved, also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), French Rococo portraitist (born 1702)
- April 18 – Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (born 1703)
- May 5 – Olof Arenius, Swedish portrait painter (born 1701)
- June 22 – Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (born 1696)[10]
- July 17 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the court of the Emperor (b. 1688)[11]
- July 18 – Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna (b. 1730)
- August 13 – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English heiress and painter (b. 1726)[12]
- November 7
- Vincenzo Meucci, Italian painter whose patrons included Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (b. 1694)
- Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (b. 1685)
- date unknown
- Antonio Consetti, Italian historical painter (b. 1686)
- William Elliott, English engraver (born 1727)
References
- ^ Hargreaves, Matthew. Candidates for Fame: The Society of Artists of Great Britain, 1760-1791. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2005. P 174
- ^ George Edward Cokayne, ed. (1983). The Complete Baronetage. Vol. V. Alan Sutton Publishing. p. 140.
- ^ Wright, Christopher; Gordon, Catherine May; Smith, Mary Peskett (2006). British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press. p. 289.
- ^ Cosgrove, Denis; Daniels, Stephen (1988). The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments. Cambridge University Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-521-38915-0.
- ^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Felsing, Johann Konrad". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 485.
- ^ John Denison Champlin; Charles Callahan Perkins (1913). Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. C. Scribner's sons. p. 36.
- ^ Graves, Robert Edmund (1888). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 16. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^ Musee de Peinture et de Sculpture. 1834. p. 14.
- ^ Louise Pelletier (27 September 2006). Architecture in Words: Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture. Routledge. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-134-15929-1.
- ^ Schiavone, Michael J. (2009). Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. II G-Z. Pietà: Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. p. 1711. ISBN 9789993291329.
- ^ Cécile Beurdeley; Michel Beurdeley (1972). Giuseppe Castiglione: A Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors. Lund Humphries. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-8048-0987-0.
- ^ Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte (1909). A History of Dunster and of the Families of Mohun & Luttrell. St. Catherine Press Limited. p. 227.