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1764 in art
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August 25, 2025
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Events
Paintings
Births
Deaths
Overview of the events of 1764 in art
List of years in art
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Events from the year
1764 in art
.
Events
February -
Joshua Reynolds
co-founds
The Club
with writer
Samuel Johnson
.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann
's
Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums
("History of Ancient Art") is published.
Paintings
Francis Cotes
– Portrait of the architect
William Chambers
(1764)
Portrait of the Duke of York
by
Pompeo Batoni
Pompeo Batoni
Portrait of David Garrick
Portrait of the Duke of York
Nicola Bertucci
and
Carlo Lodi
–
The Pleasures of Country Life
(
tempera
paintings for Villa Sampiera,
Bologna
)
Vigilius Eriksen
–
Catherine II Before the Mirror
Thomas Gainsborough
–
Portrait of Countess Howe
Joshua Reynolds
–
Miss Nelly O'Brien
Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo
–
The Magic Lantern
Johann Zoffany
–
The Three Sons of the Earl of Bute
Births
April 1
-
Barbara Krafft
, Austrian portrait painter (died
1825
)
April 13
–
Giacomo Guardi
,
Italian
veduta
painter (died
1835
)
April 14
–
Firmin Didot
, French printer, engraver, and type founder (died
1836
)
April 20
–
Rudolph Ackermann
, Saxon-born printer and lithographer (died
1834
)
April 30
–
Luigi Ademollo
, Italian painter (died
1849
)
May 11
–
Grigory Ugryumov
,
Russian
painter (died
1823
)
May 20
–
Johann Gottfried Schadow
, German sculptor (died
1850
)
July 9
–
Louis-Pierre Baltard
, architect and engraver (died
1846
)
July 12
–
Charles Thévenin
, neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes (died
1838
)
August 22
–
Charles Percier
, French architect and designer (died
1838
)
September 18
–
Mauro Gandolfi
, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School (died
1834
)
October 14
–
Ferdinand Runk
, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher (died
1834
)
October 19
-
Johann Christoph Rincklake
, German portrait painter (died
1813
)
Unknown
Jacques-Louis Copia
, French engraver (died
1799
)
Giovanni Folo
, Italian engraver of the Neoclassic period (died
1836
)
Probable
Qian Du
,
Chinese
landscape painter
during the
Qing Dynasty
(died
1844
)
Deaths
March 13
–
Okumura Masanobu
,
Japanese
print designer, book publisher, and painter (born
1686
)
April 9
–
Marco Benefial
, Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in
Rome
(born
1684
)
May 3
–
Francesco Algarotti
, Italian philosopher, engraver and art critic (born
1712
)
July 20
–
Peter van Bleeck
, portrait painter and engraver (born
1697
)
August 23
–
Johanna Marie Fosie
, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (born
1726
)
September 1
–
Sebastiano Conca
, Italian painter (born
1680
)
October 26
–
William Hogarth
, English painter credited with pioneering western
sequential art
(born
1697
)
November 13
–
John Wootton
, English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes (born
1682
)
Undated –
Francesco Zucchi
, Italian engraver (born
1692
)
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