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

• Jacopo Amigoni
• * 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