1759 in art
Events from the year 1759 in art.
Events
- 25 August – The Salon of 1759 opens at the Louvre in Paris
- Thomas Gainsborough and his family move to Bath, England.
Works
Image:Thomas Gainsborough by Thomas Gainsborough.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Thomas Gainsborough, Self-Portrait 1759- Giambettino Cignaroli – Death of Cato
- Thomas Gainsborough
- *Self-Portrait
- *Thomas Wollaston
- Joshua Reynolds –
- Samuel Scott – A View of Alexander Pope's Villa, Twickenham
- John Shackleton – ''George II''
Births
- January 21 – François Baillairgé, Canadian artist of woodworking, wood-carving and architecture
- February 10 – Carlo Lasinio, Italian engraver
- March 1 – Christian Gullager, Danish artist specializing in portraits and theatrical scenery
- July 10 – Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Belgian flower painter
- July 27 – Pierre Charles Baquoy, French painter and engraver especially of famous historical characters
- August 15 – Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French miniature painter
- August 16 – Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court
- December 16 – Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, French physicist and painter
- December 29 – Julius Caesar Ibbetson, landscape painter date unknown
- * Jean-Baptiste Audebert, French natural history artist
- * Henri Auguste, Parisian gold- and silversmith
- * Louis-André-Gabriel Bouchet, French historical painter
- * Adam Buck, Irish neo-classical portraitist and miniature painter
- * Antoine Michel Filhol, French engraver
- * John Frederick Miller, English illustrator
- * Rafael Ximeno y Planes, Spanish painter
Deaths
- January 15 - Bernardo Germán de Llórente, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque period
- March 27 – August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof, miniature painter and naturalist
- April 4 – Christoffer Foltmar, Danish painter of miniatures and organist
- April 20 – Jeong Seon, Korean landscape painter
- May 12 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor
- June 20 – Margareta Capsia, Finnish painter
- July 25 - Theodoor Verhaegen, sculptor from the Southern Netherlands
- September 27 – Gaetano Fanti, Italian fresco painter
- date unknown
- *Placido Costanzi, Italian painter of the Costanzi family of artists
- *Bernardo de' Dominici, Italian art historian and painter
- *Alberto Pullicino, Maltese painter
- *Wang Shishen, Chinese painter
- *Kaspar Anton von Baroni-Cavalcabo, Italian painter