1735 in art
Events from the year 1735 in art.
Events
- February 18 – The English ballad opera Flora goes down in recorded history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America.
- June 25 – In Great Britain, the Engraving Copyright Act takes effect on being given royal assent, the first of a series of British copyright protection laws, to protect original engravings against unauthorized copies.
- William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress series of paintings are published as engraved prints in London.
- The Chandos Mausoleum is constructed for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos in St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch, north of London, decorated in a classical trompe-l'œil style by Gaetano Brunetti.
- Guillaume Coustou the Younger is awarded the Prix de Rome.
Paintings
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- * Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach
- * Frederick, Prince of Wales
- Canaletto
- * The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo
- * The Feast Day of Saint Roch
- * The Molo, Venice
- * A Regatta on the Grand Canal
- * Venice: A Regatta on the Grand Canal
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- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
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- * Boy with a Top
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- Agostino Masucci – The Solemnisation of the Marriage of James III and Maria Clementina Sobieska
- Charles-Joseph Natoire – Psyche and Proserpine
- Giovanni Battista Piazzetta – ''The Assumption of Mary''
Sculptures
- Unknown sculptor - Equestrian statue of William III, Glasgow
Births
- January 18 – Jeremiah Meyer, German-born English miniaturist
- May – Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter
- May 8 – Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and later a politician
- June 16 – Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French painter
- July 10 – Ulrika Pasch, Swedish miniaturist
- October 17 – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School
- December 20 – Friedrich August Brand, Austrian painter and engraver of historical subjects and landscapes
- December 29 – Thomas Banks, sculptor date unknown
- * Dimitrije Bačević, Serbian icon painter and muralist
- * Samuel Collins, British miniature painter
- * Tilly Kettle, English portrait painter
- * Isoda Koryusai, Japanese printmaker and painter
- * Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes
- * James Tassie, Scottish engraver
- * Giovanni Volpato, Italian engraver, excavator, dealer in antiquities and manufacturer of biscuit porcelain figurines
Deaths
- January 21 – Abraham Rademaker, Dutch painter and printmaker
- March 4 – Antonio Beduzzi, Austrian-Italian theater engineer, painter, and architect
- July 1 – Jean Ranc, French portrait painter
- July 16 – Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, British historian, travel writer and artist
- December 11 – Antoine Rivalz, official painter to the town of Toulouse date unknown
- * Pompeo Aldrovandini, Italian painter
- * Antonio Dardani, Italian painter
- * Nunzio Ferraiuoli, Italian painter
- * Pârvu Mutul, Romanian muralist and church painter
- * Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli, Italian Rococo sculptor