1746 in art
Events from the year 1746 in art.
Events
- The Venetian painter Canaletto moves to London, beginning a nine-year stay in England to be closer to his market.
- The French philosopher Charles Batteux publishes Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of les beaux arts, the fine arts.
Paintings
Image:Canaletto - Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Canaletto's painting of Westminster Bridge- Canaletto
- *A Most Beautiful View of the City of London Taken Through One of the Centres of the Arches of the New Bridge at Westminster
- *Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames
- Thomas Gainsborough – Conversation in a Park
- Elias Gottlob Haussmann – Johann Sebastian Bach
- Thomas Hudson –
- John Smybert – Sir William Pepperrell, Bt
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - St. Catherine of Siena
Births
- March 9 – François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor
- March 22 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter
- March 30 – Francisco Goya, Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker
- June 6 – Francesco Saverio Mergalo, Italian portrait painter of the Rococo or late-Baroque period
- October 22 – James Northcote, English painter
- November 11 – Jean Guillaume Moitte, French sculptor
- December 30 – François-André Vincent, French painter date unknown
- * Luis Paret y Alcázar, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period
- * Anthonie Andriessen, Dutch landscape painter
- * William Ashford, British painter who worked exclusively in Ireland
- * Domenico Aspari, Italian painter and engraver
- * Etienne Aubry, French painter of primarily portraits and genre subjects
- * Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter
- * John Bogle, Scottish miniature painter
- * Joseph Boze, French portrait and miniature painter
- * Teodor Ilić Češljar, one of the best late Baroque and Rococo Serbian painters from the region of Vojvodina
- * Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher
- * Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver
- * Xi Gang, renowned Chinese calligrapher and painter in Qing Dynasty
- * Philippe-Laurent Roland, French sculptor
- * Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver
- * Henry Walton, British painter and art dealer
Deaths
- February 22 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor and academician
- March 20 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter
- March 29 – Matteo Ripa, painter, engraver and missionary
- June 8 – Giacomo Leoni, architect
- July 30 – Francesco Trevisani, Italian painter of frescoes
- December 31 – Antonio Baroni, Italian painter active in Verona
- date unknown
- *Domenico Bocciardo, Italian painter, active in Genoa
- *Jan Baptist Bosschaert, Flemish painter
- *Sebastiano Galeotti, peripatetic Italian painter
- *Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue, Italian potter and painter
- *Theodor van Pee, Dutch painter