1750 in art

Events

• The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia is founded by the Venetian Senate as Venice’s school of painting, sculpture, and architecture, with Giovanni Battista Piazzetta as its first president.
• Marcello Bacciarelli enters the service of Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.

Works

• Jean Barbault paints Neapolitan Herder and a Cow leaving a Cave
• Canaletto paints
• * Bacino di S. Marco: From the Piazzetta
• * Greenwich Hospital from the North Bank of the Thames
• * The Thames from the Terrace of Somerset House, Looking toward St. Paul's
• * A View of the Molo and the Riva degli Schiavone in Venice
• Andrea Casali paints Lucretia
• Nihâl Chand paints Bani Thani
• Filippo della Valle carves the Annunziata bas-relief at Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome
• Georg Desmarées paints The Artist with his daughter Antonia and Portrait of Maria Rosa Walburga von Soyer
• Thomas Gainsborough paints Mr and Mrs Andrews
• William Hogarth paints the satirical The March of the Guards to Finchley
• Thomas Hudson – Portrait of William Shirley
• Maruyama Okyo paints The Ghost of Oyuki in ink on silk
• Samuel Scott – An Arch of Westminster Bridge
• Frans van der Mijn paints a portrait of the English politician, architect and collector Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet
• Claude Joseph Vernet
• * A Sporting Contest on the Tiber
• * a Times of Day series

Births

• March 9 – Johann Friedrich August Tischbein, German painter
• June 5 – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter
• July 21 – Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits
• October 30 – Jan Bulthuis, Dutch draftsman and painter
• December 6 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter
• December 8 – Giuseppe Cades, Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver date unknown
• * Luigi Agricola, Italian painter and jeweler
• * John Boyne, British water-colour painter
• * P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, French draughtsman and engraver
• * Manuel de la Cruz, Spanish painter
• * John Downman, English portrait painter
• * George Engleheart, English painter of portrait miniatures
• * Ludwig Guttenbrunn, Austrian painter
• * Francesco Pozzi, Italian engraver
• * Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter
• * Stefano Tofanelli, Italian painter during the Neoclassic period
• * François Marie Suzanne, French sculptor, who created a terracotta figure of Benjamin Franklin in 1793

Deaths

• March 7 – Cornelis Troost, Dutch painter
• April - Guillaume Taraval, Swedish painter of French descent
• April 29 – Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor
• June 25 - Diego Francesco Carlone, Italian sculptor
• July 31 – Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer
• August 12 – Rachel Ruysch, Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers
• August 20 – Nishikawa Sukenobu, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker from Kyoto
• date unknown
• *Francesco Boccaccino, Italian painter, born at Cremona
• *Mattia Bortoloni, Italian Rococo painter
• *Leonardo Coccorante, Italian painter especially of large, highly detailed landscapes with imaginary classical architectural ruins
• *Antonio David, Italian portrait painter, especially of the House of Stuart
• *Jan Griffier II, English painter
• *Philipp Ferdinand de Hamilton, painter from the Southern Netherlands active in Austria
• probable – Robert Griffier, Dutch landscape painter