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Events from the year 1747 in art.

Events

August – Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, writes an influential letter on the subject of the Paris Salon.
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo joins the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Later in the year he marries Marie-Marguerite Lebrun.

Works

Francis Bindon – Portrait of Richard Baldwin, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
Canaletto – London seen through an arch of Westminster Bridge (c. 1746–47)
Thomas Gainsborough – Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting (Tate Britain)
Matthäus Günther – Frescos in Amorbach Abbey (1742–47)
Charles-Joseph Natoire
- Portrait of Louis, Dauphin of France
- Saint Stephen and the False Witnesses (for Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés)
- Triumph of Bacchus (Musée du Louvre)
Gervase Spencer – Portrait miniatures

Awards

Births

January 4 – Dominique Vivant, French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist (died 1825)
March 8 – Johann Peter Melchior, German porcelain modeller (died 1825)
September 30 – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (died 1822)
December 8 – Louis Gerverot, French porcelain painter (died 1829)
date unknown
- William Ellis, English engraver (died 1810)
- Giuseppe Quaglio, Italian painter and stage designer (died 1828)
- Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottière, French decorative painter (died 1820)
- Margareta Seuerling, Swedish actor and theater director (died 1820)
- Shiba Kōkan, born Andō Kichirō, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1818)
- Francis Wheatley, English painter and engraver (died 1801)

Deaths

January 26 – Willem van Mieris, Dutch painter from Leyden (born 1662)
April 3 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and draughtsmen (born 1657)
July 17 – Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (born 1665)
November 7 – Giuseppe Melani, Italian painter, active mainly in Pisa (born 1673)
date unknown
- Elias Baeck, German painter and engraver (born 1679)
- Maurice Baquoy, French engraver (born 1680)
- Giovanni Battista Canossa, Italian wood engraver (born unknown)
- Claude Charles, French historical and decorative painter (born 1661)
- Tommaso Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (born 1700)
- Michael Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter (born 1690)

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