1741 in art

Events from the year 1741 in art.

Events

At the request of the new Empress Elizabeth of Russia, painter Ivan Nikitich Nikitin begins his journey back from exile in Tobolsk to Saint Petersburg but dies en route.
Charles-Joseph Natoire produces a series of cartoons for the Gobelins tapestries History of Mark Anthony.
A major collection of Old Master drawings and other material from the collection of Pierre Crozat is auctioned in Paris; the catalogue written by Pierre-Jean Mariette is the first modern descriptive sale catalogue.

Works

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William Hogarth – Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly
Pietro Longhi – La lezione di danza
Michele Marieschi – Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus
Martin van Meytens – Portrait of Francis I, Grand Duke of Tuscany

Births

February 7 – Henry Fuseli, Swiss-born British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art
March 1 - Johann Georg Edlinger, Austrian court painter
March 18 – Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter
March 20 – Jean-Antoine Houdon, French neoclassical sculptor
March 26 – Jean-Michel Moreau, French illustrator and engraver
April 15 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist
October 11 – James Barry, Irish painter
October 30 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter
November 18 - Carlo Antonio Porporati, Italian engraver and painter
date unknown
*Eliphalet Chapin, American furniture designer
*François-Anne David, French line-engraver
*Cornelius Høyer, Danish miniature painter
*Thomas Hickey, Irish painter of portraits and genre scenes
*Wojciech Kucharski, Polish sculptor and mason
*James Nixon, English miniature-painter
*Mette Magrete Tvistman, Danish clockmaker
*Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter

Deaths

February 15 - Georg Rafael Donner, Austrian sculptor
February 19 – Andrea Locatelli, Italian painter of landscapes
March 8 - Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers, French engraver
April 17 – Onofrio Avellino, Italian painter of the Baroque period
May 16 – Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German painter and engraver who invented the system of three- and four-colour printing
June 6 – Giuseppe Maria Mazza, Bolognese sculptor of the Rococo period
July 8 – Pietro Paltronieri, Italian painter of quadratura
November – Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Venetian decorative and mural painter
date unknown
*Giacomo Adolfi, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in and around Bergamo
*Giovanni Antonio Capello, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Brescia
*Pedro de Uceda, Spanish Baroque painter
*Ivan Nikitich Nikitin, Russian painter of portraits and battle scenes
*Alexey Zubov, Russian etcher