1751 in art

Events

• September 13 – The Kalvária Banská Štiavnica in the Kingdom of Hungary is completed
• Edme-François Gersaint's Catalogue raisonné de toutes les piėces qui forment l'oeuvre de Rembrandt, the first catalogue raisonné of a single artist's graphic work, is published posthumously in Paris
• Charles-Joseph Natoire is appointed director of the French Academy in Rome
• Giovanni Paolo Pannini restarts work on the Trevi Fountain after the death of Nicola Salvi

Works

• François Boucher – Toilette of Venus
• Canaletto
• * The Grand Walk, Vauxhall Gardens
• * and London: The Thames from Somerset House Terrace towards Westminster
• Maurice Quentin de La Tour – Self-portrait
• William Hoare – Portrait of Henry Pelham
• William Hogarth engraves the prints Gin Lane, Beer Street and The Four Stages of Cruelty
• Pietro Longhi – The Rhinoceros
• Andrea Soldi – Louis-François Roubiliac
• Charles-André Vanloo paints portraits
• Claude-Joseph Vernet – ''A River with Fishermen''

Births

• January 7 – François Dumont, French painter of portrait miniatures
• January 31 – Jean François Carteaux, French painter and army commander
• February 18 – Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller, Swedish painter
• April 1 – Joseph Lange, Austrian actor and amateur painter
• May 11 – Ralph Earl, American Loyalist painter
• May 25 – John Raphael Smith, English painter and mezzotint engraver
• June 5 – Georg Haas, Danish engraver
• July 4
• * Giuseppe Ceracchi, Italian-born portrait sculpture and republican
• * Heneage Finch, 4th Earl of Aylesford, British peer, politician and artist
• August 2 – Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux, French medal engraver
• September 13 – Hendrik Kobell, Dutch landscape and marine painter, etcher, draftsman and watercolorist
• October 6 – John Webber, English landscape artist
• December 8 – Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter
• December 20 – Daniël Dupré, Dutch engraver, painter, draftsman, and watercolorist
• December 31 – Johann Baptist von Lampi the Elder, Austrian historical and portrait painter date unknown
• * George Brookshaw, English painter and illustrator
• * William Hamilton, English painter
• * Anna Maria Mengs, German portrait painter in pastel and miniature
• * Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer
• * John Keyse Sherwin, English engraver and painter
• * Henry Tresham, Irish-born painter of large-scale history paintings

Deaths

• January 6 - Carl Marcus Tuscher, German-born Danish polymath, portrait painter, printmaker, architect, and decorator
• January 29 – Jacob van Schuppen, Austrian painter
• March 8 – Jan František Händl, Czech Roman Catholic priest and baroque painter
• August 1 – Helena Arnell, one of the first Finnish painters and few female artists
• September 21 – Annibale Albani, Italian Cardinal and art collector date unknown
• * Francesco Andreini, Italian painter
• * Jean Charles Flipart, French engraver
• * Giovanni Domenico Lombardi, Italian painter in Lucca
• * Michele Rocca, Italian painter who practised in Rome