1770 in art

Events

• Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of twenty-six.

Works

• Nathaniel Dance-Holland – Portrait of Robert Clive
• Thomas Gainsborough – approximate date
• * The Blue Boy
• * Portrait of David Garrick
• * Portrait of Thomas Linley the Elder
• Angelica Kauffman – Vortigern and Rowena
• Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée – The Spartan Mother
• Joshua Reynolds – Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers
• Alexander Roslin
• * Portrait of the artist's wife
• * Portrait of Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden
• George Stubbs
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• * A Lion Attacking a Horse
• Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo – The Immaculate Conception with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola
• Benjamin West
• * The Death of General Wolfe
• * The Oath of Hannibal
• Richard Wilson – ''On Hounslow Heath''

Births

• January 13 – Anatole Devosge, French painter
• February 12 – Jean-Jacques Karpff, French painter, designer and miniaturist
• February 21 – Antonio Pasini, Italian painter and manuscript illuminator
• March 12 – Karl August Senff, Baltic German painter, engraver and teacher
• c. March 25 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter
• April 12 – George Clint, English portrait painter and engraver
• April 18 – Ludwig Buchhorn, German painter and engraver
• May 4 – François Gérard, Italian-born French painter
• June 1 – Michael Sigismund Frank, glass painter
• July 3 – Thomas Pardoe, English enameler noted for flower painting
• October 18 – Thomas Phillips, English portrait and subject painter
• November 15 – Louis Lafitte, French painter, designer, illustrator and muralist
• November 19 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor
• November 30 – John Buckler, British draughtsman and engraver date unknown
• * Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur
• * Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, French painter and miniaturist
• * Richard Duppa, English writer and a draughtsman
• * Julien-Joseph Ducorron, Belgian landscape painter
• * Johann Christian Eberlein, German painter
• * Johannes Jelgerhuis, painter and actor from the Northern Netherlands
• * Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, French painter
• * John Lewin, English-born Australian artist
• * Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, portraitist and museum director
• * 1765/1770: Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect and sculptor-decorator

Deaths

• January 2 – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German Rococo stuccoist and sculptor
• January 8 – John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor
• February 17 – Louis René Vialy, French painter
• March 5 – Gaetano Chiaveri, Italian Baroque architect and master builder, most notable for his work as part of the second phase of the Dresden Baroque
• March 23 – Martin van Meytens, Austrian portrait painter
• March 27
• * José Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor
• * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter
• May 30 – François Boucher, French painter
• July 7 – Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style
• July 16 – Francis Cotes, English painter
• November 1 – Gaspare Traversi, Italian painter
• December 1 – Giambettino Cignaroli, Italian painter
• December 24 – Pierre-Philippe Mignot, French sculptor date unknown
• * Guillaume Philippe Benoist, French line engraver
• * Domenico Duprà, Italian rococo court painter
• * Isabel Jolís Oliver, Spanish printer and engraver
• * Giuseppe Pedretti, Italian painter of lunettes and altarpieces
• * Maria Felice Tibaldi, Italian painter probable
• * Apollonio Domenichini, Italian painter of vedute, active in Venice, between 1740 and 1770
• * Susanna Drury, Irish painter chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings
• * Dimitrije Bačević, Serbian icon painter and muralist.