1761 in art
Events from the year 1761 in art.
Events
- May 9 – Society of Artists of Great Britain's Exhibition of 1761 opens in Spring Gardens, London. Exhibitors include Gainsborough, Hogarth and Nollekens, and Stubbs shows a painting for the first time.
- Salon of 1761 is held at the Louvre in Paris
- Scottish-born artist Allan Ramsay appointed to succeed John Shackelton as Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III of Great Britain.
Works
- François-Hubert Drouais – The children of the comte de Bethune playing the guitar
- Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Susannah "Suky" Trevelyan
- William Hogarth – The Five Orders of Perriwigs as they were Worn at the Late Coronation Measured Architectonically
- Anton Raphael Mengs
- * Parnassus
- * Portrait of Charles III of Spain
- Joshua Reynolds
- * David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy
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- * The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke
- Louis-François Roubiliac – Memorials to Handel and Lady Elizabeth Nightingale in Westminster Abbey
- Richard Wilson
- * Syon House from Richmond Gardens
- * ''The Valley of the Dee, with Chester in the Distance''
Births
- January 24 – Johann Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher
- January 28 – Marguerite Gérard, French painter and etcher
- March – John Laporte, English landscape painter and etcher
- April 10 – Jacques-Edme Dumont, French sculptor
- May 16 – John Opie, Cornish historical and portrait painter
- June 29 – Jacques Kuyper, Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer
- July 5 – Louis-Léopold Boilly, French painter
- October 11 – Mather Brown, American-born portrait and historical painter
- October 21 – Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, French artist, map-maker and close strategic advisor of Napoleon
- September 6 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter
- November 4 – Bertrand Andrieu, French engraver and medalist
- December 1 – Marie Tussaud, French-born wax modeller of the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum date unknown
- * Jan Frans Eliaerts, Flemish painter of animals, flowers and fruit
- * William Fowler, English artist
- * Charles Hayter, English painter
- * Sakai Hōitsu, Japanese painter of the Rinpa school
- * Zhang Yin, Chinese calligrapher and painter of Qing Dynasty probable – Robert Fagan, Irish painter, diplomat and archaeologist
Deaths
- April 4 – Theodore Gardelle, painter and enameller
- April 30 – Jean Duvivier, French medallist
- July 13 – Claes Lang, Finnish painter
- July 16 – Jacob Fortling, German-Danish sculptor, architect and manufacturer
- July 21 – Louis Galloche, French painter
- August 18 – François Gaspard Adam, French rococo sculptor
- September 7 – Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, German painter
- December 10 – Johann Georg Platzer, Austrian painter of primarily historical and mythical scenes date unknown
- * August Querfurt, Austrian painter
- * Mary Roberts, miniaturist
- * Pieter Tanjé, engraver from the Northern Netherlands
- * Ivan Vishnyakov, Russian painter