1744 in art
Events from the year 1744 in art.
Events
*Works
- Bernardo Bellotto – Vaprio d'Adda
- Canaletto
- * Entrance to the Grand Canal, looking east
- * Piazza S. Marco, looking south
- * Piazza S. Marco, looking west
- Charles-Michel-Ange Challe – Sleeping Diana
- Georg Desmarées – Portrait of Franz Joachim Beich
- Thomas Hudson – Portrait of George II
- Jean-Étienne Liotard – The Chocolate Girl
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- * The Banquet of Cleopatra
- * Ceiling paintings in Würzburg Residence
- * Translation of the House of Loreto
- * Decorations for Villa Cordellini
- Christian Friedrich Zincke – Miniature portrait of Sir Robert Walpole in Garter robes
Births
- February 13 – David Allan, Scottish painter
- July 9 – François-Guillaume Ménageot, French painter of religious and French historical scenes
- October 27 – Mary Moser, English painter primarily of flowers
- October 25 – Daniel Berger, German engraver
- October 28 – William Hodges, English landscape painter
- December 10
- *William Berczy, Canadian pioneer and painter
- *Thomas Parkinson, British portrait painter
- December 15 – Jean-François Pierre Peyron, French neoclassical painter
- December 21 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter date unknown
- * Manuel Acevedo, Spanish painter
- * Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver and teacher
- * Okada Beisanjin – Japanese painter
- * Hendrik de Meijer, Dutch painter
- * János Donát, Hungarian painter
- * Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher
- * Gabriel Gotthard Sweidel, Finnish church painter
Deaths
- January 18 – Michele Marieschi, Italian painter of landscapes or vistas
- January 22 – Pierre Lepautre, French sculptor
- February 13 – Pierre Gobert, French painter
- February 17 – René Frémin, French sculptor
- March 9 – Giuseppe Zola, Italian painter of landscapes with small figures
- June 7 – Pietro Ercole Fava, Italian nobleman and art patron
- July 28 – Lorenzo De Ferrari, Italian painter of the Baroque period
- October – Domenico Maria Muratori, Bolognese painter, studied under Lorenzo Pasinelli at Bologna, painted La mort de Cléopâtre in the Louvredate unknown
- * Charles Collins, Irish painter primarily of animals and still-life
- * Marcantonio Riverditi – Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces
- * Maria Verelst, Dutch miniature and portrait painter