1760 in art

Events

• 21 April – First Exhibition opens in London. Organised by the Royal Society of Arts, it was the first public exhibition of contemporary art in Britain.
• Autumn – Johann Zoffany moves to London.
• Galleria nazionale di Parma established.

Paintings

• Thomas Gainsborough
• *Portrait of Ann Ford
• *The Artist`s Daughters, Molly and Peggy
• *Sunset
• Tilly Kettle – Self-portrait, his first surviving painting
• Joshua Reynolds
• *Portrait of Laurence Sterne
• *Portrait of Mrs Day
• Gabriel de Saint-Aubin – A Street Show in Paris
• Richard Wilson
• * Lake Avernus and the Island of Capri
• * ''View on the Arno''

Births

• January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter
• January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator
• March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness
• March 4 – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey
• March 6 – Dora Stock, portrait painter
• March 16 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer
• April 13 – Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter
• May 31 – George Garrard, English artist
• June 11 - Maria Cosway, Italian-English painter, engraver, composer, musician, and society hostess
• August 3 – Jacques Réattu, French painter and winner of the grand prix de Rome
• October 1 – William Thomas Beckford, art critic
• October 12 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists
• October 31? – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period
• November 11 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor
• December 11 - Pierre Petitot, French sculptor
• date unknown
• *Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver
• *Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, furniture designer
• *Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver
• *Pieter Faes, Dutch painter of flowers and fruit
• *Luigi Frisoni, Italian painter
• *John Christian Rauschner, German portrait painter and sculptor
• *Jan Regulski, Polish glyptic artist and medalist
• *Jacob Schnebbelie, English illustrator and engraver
• *Quirinus van Amelsfoort, Dutch allegory, historical, and portrait painter
• probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter

Deaths

• January 23 – Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, an Italian painter, 1756 co-founder of the Venetian Academy
• April 11 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter
• July 18 – Philip Mercier, portrait painter
• November 20 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter
• December 21 – Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver
• date unknown
• *Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker
• *Francesco Conti, Venetian painter
• *Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter
• *Yi Insang, Korean painter and government officer of the late Joseon period
• *Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits
• *Shen Quan, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty
• *Margaretha Wulfraet, Dutch painter
• *Yi Insang, Korean painter of the later Joseon period