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1756 in art
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November 02, 2025
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Events
Paintings
Births
Deaths
References
Overview of the events of 1756 in art
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Events from the year
1756 in art
.
Events
Richard Trevor
, Prince
Bishop of Durham
, acquires 13 paintings by
Francisco de Zurbarán
depicting the patriarch
Jacob
and 12 of his sons for his palace at
Auckland Castle
in north east England.
Paintings
François Boucher
–
Madame de Pompadour
, 1756
Pompeo Batoni
–
Portrait of Lord North
François Boucher
– portraits of
Madame de Pompadour
.
John Singleton Copley
– pictures with Rococo influence.
Szymon Czechowicz
– Bishop Stanislaus bringing back to life
Piotrawin
.
Thomas Gainsborough
–
The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly
Thomas Hudson
–
Portrait of George Frideric Handel
Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Susanna Beckford
Portrait of Robert Orme
Portrait of Horace Walpole
Johan Zoffany
–
Self-portrait as David with the head of Goliath
(approximate date).
Births
January 6
–
Gaspare Landi
, Italian Neoclassical painter (died
1830
)
February 12
–
Joseph Chinard
, French sculptor who worked in a
Neoclassical style
(died
1813
)
March 4
–
Henry Raeburn
, Scottish portrait painter (died
1823
)
[
1
]
April 26
–
Johann Friedrich Dryander
, German-born portrait painter (died
1812
)
May 23
–
Charles Clément Balvay
, French engraver mainly working in
intaglio
and exclusively in
burin
(died
1822
)
June 3
–
Louis-François Cassas
, French landscape painter, sculptor and architect (died
1827
)
June 6
–
John Trumbull
, American painter (died
1843
)
July 14
–
Thomas Rowlandson
, English artist and
caricaturist
(died
1827
)
August 13
–
James Gillray
, British caricaturist (died
1815
)
[
2
]
October 22
-
Samuel Alken
, English sculptor and engraver (died
1815
)
December 7
–
Cornelis van Spaendonck
,
Dutch
painter (died
1839
)
December 17
–
Edme Quenedey des Ricets
, French painter and engraver, especially miniatures (died
1830
)
date unknown
Walter Beekerk
, Dutch painter (died
1796
)
Gaspard Duché de Vancy
, French painter and drawer (died
1788
)
Thomas Gaugain
, English
stipple engraver
(died
1812
)
John Hickey
,
Irish
-born sculptor (died
1795
)
Grigory Ostrovsky
, Russian portraitist (died
1814
)
Hugh Robinson
, British history and portrait painter (died
1796
)
(b. 1756/1758) –
Francesco Piranesi
, Italian engraver and architect (died
1810
)
Deaths
January 25
–
Christoph Thomas Scheffler
, German Rococo painter (born
1699
)
May 2
-
John Faber the Younger
, Dutch portrait engraver (born c.1695)
July 24
–
George Vertue
, English engraver and antiquary (born
1684
)
November 21
–
José de Ibarra
, Mexican painter (born
1688
)
date unknown
Bernard Accama
, Dutch painter (born
1697
)
Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi
,
Ottoman
calligrapher
(born
1687
)
Li Shan
, Chinese painter (born
1686
)
Hua Yan
, Chinese painter from
Fujian province
(born
1682
)
Zhang Zongcang
, Chinese painter in the
Qing Dynasty
(born
1686
)
References
↑
"Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)"
.
National Records of Scotland
. 31 May 2013
. Retrieved
24 June
2022
.
↑
Gillray, James (1966). Hill, Draper (ed.).
Fashionable contrasts: caricatures
. London: Phaidon. p.
8
.
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