1747 in art
Events from the year 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