1748 in art

Events

• The Paris Salon first introduces a jury.
• Patience Lovell, the first recognized American-born sculptor, marries Joseph Wright.

Works

• Canaletto – The South Façade of Warwick Castle
• Maurice Quentin de La Tour – Marie Leszczyńska, Queen of France and Nazarre
• Robert Feke – Portrait of William Bowdoin
• Thomas Gainsborough – Landscape in Suffolk
• William Hogarth – The Gate of Calais, or ''O, the Roast Beef of Old England''

Awards

• Prix de Rome – Augustin Pajou

Births

• May 22 – Thomas Roberts, Irish Landscape artist
• June 22 – John Carter, English draughtsman and architect
• August 30, Jacques-Louis David, French painter
• September 26 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German painter and grandson of the composer
• October 9 – Jacob Adam, Austrian copper etcher
• October 16 – Augustin Dupré, French engraver of French currency and medals
• October 13 – Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, painter and art historian date unknown
• * Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter in the Neoclassical style
• * Christina Chalon, Dutch painter and etcher
• * Marie-Anne Collot, French sculptor
• * Rosalie Duthé, French courtesan and artists' model
• * Charles Eschard, French painter, draftsman and engraver
• * Pierre-Charles Jombert, French painter
• * Louis Masreliez, Swedish painter and interior designer
• * John Ramage, Irish American goldsmith and miniaturist
• * Dionys van Dongen, Dutch painter
• * Marten Waefelaerts, Flemish 18th century landscape painter
• * 1748/1749: Henry Pelham, American painter, engraver, and cartographer

Deaths

• April 12 – William Kent, English architect and designer
• May 5 – Alessandro Galli Bibiena, Italian architect and painter, eldest son of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena
• June 11 – Felice Torelli, Italian from a family of painters, painter of altarpieces
• August 14 – Thomas Germain, French silversmith
• September 15 – Johann Georg Schmidt, Austrian Baroque painter date unknown
• * Ferdinando del Cairo, Italian painter of the Baroque
• * Giovanni Casini, Italian portrait painter and sculptor
• * Giovanni Battista Lama, Italian painter, active mainly in Naples
• * Giovanni Pietro Ligario, Italian painter of historical pictures for churches and private collections
• * Henry Scheemakers, Flemish sculptor
• * Robert van Audenaerde, Flemish painter and engraver