1730 in art

Events

• Pope Clement XII commissions Nicola Salvi to renovate the Trevi Fountain

Works

• Canaletto
• * The Bacino di San Marco
• * The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute
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• * Venice: the Grand Canal with S. Maria della Salute towards the Riva degli Schiavoni
• Rosalba Carriera – Flora
• William Hogarth
• * A Children's Party
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• Henry Scheemakers – Memorial to Sir Francis Page and Frances, Lady Page
• Enoch Seeman – Portrait of King George I
• Hamlet Winstanley – Portrait of Bishop Edward Waddington

Births

• January 15 – Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna
• January 22 – Johan Edvard Mandelberg, Swedish-born painter
• April 1 – Solomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet
• April 11 – Josef Kramolín, Czech fresco painter
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter
• July 31 – Charles-Antoine Bridan, French sculptor
• September 19 – Augustin Pajou, French sculptor
• November 2 – Giovanni Battista Casanova, Italian painter and printmaker
• November 3 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals date unknown
• * Jacques-François Amand, French historical painter
• * James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake
• * Antonio Capellini, Italian engraver
• * Niccolò Carissa, Italian painter of still-life specimens of flowers, vegetables, and birds
• * Teodor Kračun, Serbian painter, active mainly in North Serbia
• * Niccolò Lapiccola, Italian painter
• * Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice
• * Min Zhen, Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang in Jiangxi probable
• * : Aleijadinho, colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect
• * : Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter
• * Alexander Bannermann, English engraver
• * George Barret, Sr., Irish landscape artist
• * Gabriele Bella, Italian Baroque painter
• * Robert Carver, Irish painter especially of theater scenery
• * Dorning Rasbotham, English writer and painter

Deaths

• February 12 – Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris, Italian painter of landscapes
• February 26 – Johann Peter Alexander Wagner, Rococo sculptor
• March 30 – Jaime Mosen Ponz, Spanish painter
• July 18 – Tommaso Dossi, Italian painter from Verona
• October 25 – Johann Michael Rottmayr, Austrian painter
• October 29 – Jean Louis Petitot, French enamel painter
• October 30 – Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter of genre works
• November 10 – Gregorio Lazzarini, Italian painter of religious subjects and those from history and mythology
• November 21 – François de Troy, French painter, father of Jean-François de Troy
• December – Alida Withoos, Dutch botanical artist and painter date unknown
• * Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian still-life painter, active in Rome
• * Huang Ding, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty
• * Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian engraver
• * Giovanni Battista Parodi, Italian fresco painter
• * Sieuwert van der Meulen, Dutch painter
• * Marc van Duvenede, Flemish painter
• * François-Alexandre Verdier, French painter, draftsman and engraver probable
• * Pietro Nelli, Italian portrait painter
• * Clemente de Torres, Spanish Baroque painter of Genoese origin