1747 in art

Events

• August – Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, writes an influential letter on the subject of the Paris Salon.
• Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo joins the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Later in the year he marries Marie-Marguerite Lebrun.

Works

• Francis Bindon – Portrait of Richard Baldwin, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
• Canaletto – London Seen Through an Arch of Westminster Bridge
• Thomas Gainsborough – Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting
• Matthäus Günther – Frescos in Amorbach Abbey
• Charles-Joseph Natoire
• * Portrait of Louis, Dauphin of France
• * Saint Stephen and the False Witnesses
• * Triumph of Bacchus
• Samuel Scott – Wager's Action off Cartagena
• Gervase Spencer – Portrait miniatures
• Richard Wilson – ''Dover Castle''

Awards

Births

• January 4 – Dominique Vivant, French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist
• March 8 – Johann Peter Melchior, German porcelain modeller
• September 30 – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts
• December 8 – Louis Gerverot, French porcelain painter date unknown
• * William Ellis, English engraver
• * Giuseppe Quaglio, Italian painter and stage designer
• * Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottière, French decorative painter
• * Margareta Seuerling, Swedish actor and theater director
• * Shiba Kōkan, born Andō Kichirō, Japanese painter and printmaker
• * Francis Wheatley, English painter and engraver

Deaths

• January 26 – Willem van Mieris, Dutch painter from Leyden
• April 3 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and draughtsmen
• July 17 – Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter of the Bolognese School
• November 7 – Giuseppe Melani, Italian painter, active mainly in Pisa date unknown
• * Elias Baeck, German painter and engraver
• * Maurice Baquoy, French engraver
• * Giovanni Battista Canossa, Italian wood engraver
• * Claude Charles, French historical and decorative painter
• * Tommaso Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period
• * Michael Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter