1756 in art
Events from the year 1756 in art.
Events
- Richard Trevor, Prince Bishop of Durham, acquires 13 paintings by Francisco de Zurbarán depicting the patriarch Jacob and 12 of his sons for his palace at Auckland Castle in north east England.
Paintings
- Pompeo Batoni – Portrait of Lord North
- François Boucher – portraits of Madame de Pompadour.
- John Singleton Copley – pictures with Rococo influence.
- Szymon Czechowicz – Bishop Stanislaus bringing back to life Piotrawin.
- Thomas Gainsborough – The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly
- Thomas Hudson – Portrait of George Frideric Handel
- Joshua Reynolds
- * Portrait of Susanna Beckford
- * Portrait of Robert Orme
- * Portrait of Horace Walpole
- Johan Zoffany – Self-portrait as David with the head of Goliath.
Births
- January 6 – Gaspare Landi, Italian Neoclassical painter
- February 12 – Joseph Chinard, French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style
- March 4 – Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter
- April 26 – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter
- May 23 – Charles Clément Balvay, French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin
- June 3 – Louis-François Cassas, French landscape painter, sculptor and architect
- June 6 – John Trumbull, American painter
- July 14 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist
- August 13 – James Gillray, British caricaturist
- October 22 - Samuel Alken, English sculptor and engraver
- December 7 – Cornelis van Spaendonck, Dutch painter
- December 17 – Edme Quenedey des Ricets, French painter and engraver, especially miniatures date unknown
- * Walter Beekerk, Dutch painter
- * Gaspard Duché de Vancy, French painter and drawer
- * Thomas Gaugain, English stipple engraver
- * John Hickey, Irish-born sculptor
- * Grigory Ostrovsky, Russian portraitist
- * Hugh Robinson, British history and portrait painter
- * – Francesco Piranesi, Italian engraver and architect
Deaths
- January 25 – Christoph Thomas Scheffler, German Rococo painter
- May 2 - John Faber the Younger, Dutch portrait engraver
- July 24 – George Vertue, English engraver and antiquary
- November 21 – José de Ibarra, Mexican painter date unknown
- * Bernard Accama, Dutch painter
- * Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi, Ottoman calligrapher
- * Li Shan, Chinese painter
- * Hua Yan, Chinese painter from Fujian province
- * Zhang Zongcang, Chinese painter in the Qing Dynasty