1757 in art
Events from the year 1757 in art.
Events
- 3 February – French artist Robert Picault begins the rescue of the frescoes at the King's Chamber of the Palace of Fontainebleau before architect Ange-Jacques Gabrel begins renovations.
- 25 August – The Salon of 1757 opens at the Louvre in Paris
Works
- Giovanni Battista Cipriani – Decoration of Lord Mayor of London's State Coach
- Arthur Devis
- * Arthur Holdsworth Conversing with Thomas Taylor and Captain Stancombe by the River Dart
- * Portrait of Juliana Penn
- Anton Raphael Mengs – The Judgement of Paris '
- Giovanni Paolo Panini – Modern Rome
- Joshua Reynolds – Miss Margaret Morris
- Claude Joseph Vernet – View of Avignon from the Right Bank of the Rhone
- John Wollaston – Portraits made in Virginia, including
- * Martha Dandridge Custis '
- * Mann Page and his sister Elizabeth ''''
Births
- January 10 - Joseph Kreutzinger, Austrian portrait painter
- January 23 - Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, Italian portrait and caricature painter
- March 21 – James Sowerby, naturalist and illustrator
- April 22 – Josef Grassi, Austrian portrait painter
- July 24 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-born painter especially of Russian portraiture
- August 4 – Guillaume-Joseph Roques, painter
- August 17 – Adam Bartsch, Austrian scholar, artist, and printmaker in engraving and etching
- November 1 – Antonio Canova, sculptor
- November 28 – William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver
- December 2 – Pierre Cartellier, French sculptor
- December 5 – Jean-Pierre Casimir de Marcassus, Baron de Puymaurin, French chemist, medallist, politician, and man of letters date unknown
- * John Alefounder, English portrait and miniature painter
- * Joseph Barber, English landscape painter and art teacher
- * Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, Italian engraver, art dealer, and merchant
- * Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy, French landscape painter
- * Vicente Escobar, Cuban painter
- * Abraham Ezekiel Ezekiel, English engraver
- * Thomas Hardy, English portrait painter )
- * Nathaniel Plimer, miniaturist
- * Mustafa Râkim, Ottoman calligrapher
- * Sampson Towgood Roch, Irish painter of miniatures
- * William Verstille, American portrait artist
Deaths
- February 26 - Maria Moninckx, Dutch botanical artist and painter
- February 27 – Pier Francesco Guala, Italian painter active in Casale Monferrato
- March 12 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian designer, second son of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, most distinguished artist of the Galli-Bibiena family
- April 15
- * Rosalba Carriera, Venetian miniaturist
- * Franz Joseph Spiegler, German fresco painter
- April 16 – Daniel Gran, Austrian painter of frescoes and altar paintings
- June 26 – Jan Antonín Vocásek, Czech Baroque still-life painter
- August 5 – Antoine Pesne, French-born court painter of Prussia
- August 6 – Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian Baroque painter
- September 3 - Odvardt Helmoldt von Lode, Danish painter and engraver
- September 21 - Pieter Jan Snyers, Flemish painter
- October 21 - Rhoda Delaval, English portrait painter date unknown
- * Francesco Albotto, Italian painter
- * Francesco Ange, Italian painter
- * Erik Westzynthius the Elder, Finnish painter
- * Antonio Maria Zanetti, Italian artist especially of woodcuts