1764 in art

Events

• February - Joshua Reynolds co-founds The Club with writer Samuel Johnson.
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums is published.

Paintings

• Pompeo Batoni
• * Portrait of David Garrick
• * Portrait of the Duke of York
• Nicola Bertucci and Carlo Lodi – The Pleasures of Country Life
• Nathaniel Dance-Holland – Portrait of Angelica Kauffman
• Vigilius Eriksen – Catherine II Before the Mirror
• Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Countess Howe
• Angelica Kauffman
• * Penelope at Her Loom
• * Portrait of David Garrick
• Edward Penny – The Marquis of Granby Relieving a Sick Soldier
• Joshua Reynolds – '
• Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo – '
• Johann Zoffany – ''The Three Sons of the Earl of Bute''

Births

• April 1 - Barbara Krafft, Austrian portrait painter
• April 13 – Giacomo Guardi, Italian veduta painter
• April 14 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder
• April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann, Saxon-born printer and lithographer
• April 30 – Luigi Ademollo, Italian painter
• May 11 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter
• May 20 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor
• July 9 – Louis-Pierre Baltard, architect and engraver
• July 12 – Charles Thévenin, neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes
• August 22 – Charles Percier, French architect and designer
• September 18 – Mauro Gandolfi, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School
• October 14 – Ferdinand Runk, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher
• October 19 - Johann Christoph Rincklake, German portrait painter
• Unknown
• *Jacques-Louis Copia, French engraver
• *Giovanni Folo, Italian engraver of the Neoclassic period
• Probable
• *Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty

Deaths

• March 13 – Okumura Masanobu, Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter
• April 9 – Marco Benefial, Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome
• May 3 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, engraver and art critic
• July 20 – Peter van Bleeck, portrait painter and engraver
• August 23 – Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark
• September 1 – Sebastiano Conca, Italian painter
• October 26 – William Hogarth, English painter credited with pioneering western sequential art
• November 13 – John Wootton, English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes
• Undated – Francesco Zucchi, Italian engraver