1751 in art
Events from the year 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