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- Manuel ArellanoManuel ArellanoManuel Arellano is a highly cited Spanish economist specialising in econometrics and empirical microeconomics. He has been a professor of economics at CEMFI in Madrid since 1991.He studied economics at Universidad de Barcelona....
paints the earliest prototypes of the castaCastaCasta is a Portuguese and Spanish term used in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries mainly in Spanish America to describe as a whole the mixed-race people which appeared in the post-Conquest period...
genre works. - Godfrey KnellerGodfrey KnellerSir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to British monarchs from Charles II to George I...
paints Sir Christopher WrenChristopher WrenSir Christopher Wren FRS is one of the most highly acclaimed English architects in history.He used to be accorded responsibility for rebuilding 51 churches in the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666, including his masterpiece, St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, completed in 1710...
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Births
- March 5 - Carl Gustaf PiloCarl Gustaf PiloCarl Gustaf Pilo was a Swedish-born artist and painter, one of many 18th century European artists who had to leave their own country in order to make a living. Pilo worked extensively in Denmark as a painter to the Danish Court and as professor and director at the Royal Danish Academy of Art ,...
, Swedish-born artist and painter (d. 17931793 in art-Works:* Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat.* François Marie Suzanne, a French sculptor, created a terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin .-Births:*January 15 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer...
) - date unknown - Jacopo MarieschiJacopo MarieschiJacopo Marieschi was an Italian painter of Vedute, active in his native Venice.He initially trained with his father, the prominent vedute painter, Michele Marieschi, and later with Gaspare Diziani. Also called Giacomo Marieschi.-References:...
, Italian vedute painter (d. 17941794 in art-Works:* William Blake, The Ancient of Days-Births:*March 26 – Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter *May 13 – Louis Léopold Robert, Swiss painter *September 30 – Karl Begas, German historical painter...
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- Prince HoarePrince Hoare (elder)Prince Hoare was an English sculptor. "Prince" is a given name, not a royal title.Possibly born near Eye, Suffolk, brother of William Hoare, he trained under Peter Scheemakers in London. He subsequently settled in Bath with his brother but spent much of the 1740s in Italy...
, EnglishEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
sculptor (d. 17691769 in art-Works:*Christopher Hewetson – Busts of Charles Townley and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn*Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Self Portrait-Births:*April 3 – Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood...
) - Giuseppe ZocchiGiuseppe ZocchiGiuseppe Zocchi was an Italian painter and printmaker, active in Florence, and best known for his vedute of the city.Born into a poor family, Zocchi began his training in his native Florence. The Marchese Andrea Gerini became his patron when he was very young, sending him to further his studies in...
, Italian vedutaVedutaA veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista....
painter and printmaker (d. 17671767 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Swing* Canaletto spends his last full year painting, in Venice.-Births:* Jacques-Laurent Agasse – animal and landscape painter...
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Deaths
- January 24 – Jean Bérain the ElderJean Bérain the ElderJean Berain the Elder was a draughtsman and designer, painter and engraver of ornament, the artistic force in the Royal office of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi where all the designs originated for court spectacle, from fêtes to funerals, and many designs for furnishings not covered by the Bâtiments du...
, draughtsmanDrawingDrawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...
and designerDesignerA designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
, painter and engraver (b. 16401640 in art-Paintings:*Rembrandt - Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet*Diego Velázquez - Mars Resting -Births:*June 21 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch painter born at Frankfurt...
) - ?June – Gerard de LairesseGerard de LairesseGerard or Gérard de Lairesse was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist.Lairesse was born in Liège. His broad range of talent included music, poetry, and the theatre. He was perhaps the most celebrated Dutch painter in the period following the death of Rembrandt...
, Dutch Golden AgeDutch Golden AgeThe Golden Age was a period in Dutch history, roughly spanning the 17th century, in which Dutch trade, science, military and art were among the most acclaimed in the world. The first half is characterised by the Eighty Years' War till 1648...
painter and art theorist (b. 1640/16411640 in art-Paintings:*Rembrandt - Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet*Diego Velázquez - Mars Resting -Births:*June 21 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch painter born at Frankfurt...
) - December 18 – Louis de DeysterLouis de DeysterLouis de Deyster , also known as Lodewyk Deyster, was a Flemish artist and maker of musical instruments.Deyster was born in 1656 in Bruges. He was a scholar of John Maes, a respectable artist of that city. He spent the years from 1682 to 1688 in Italy, and when he returned to his native Bruges he...
, Flemish painter (b. 16561656 in art-Works:* The Procuress – Johannes Vermeer * Las Meninas – Diego Velázquez -Births:*April 9 - Francesco Trevisani, Italian painter of frescoes...
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- Maria Vittoria CassanaMaria Vittoria CassanaMaria Vittoria Cassana was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque. She was the daughter of Giovanni Francesco Cassana. She painted small pictures of religious subjects for private collections.-References:...
, Italian painter of the late-Baroque (b. unknown) - John ClostermanJohn ClostermanJohn Closterman , portrait-painter, born in Osnabrück, the son of an artist, who taught him the rudiments of design.-Career:...
, portrait painter (b. 16601660 in art-Births:* Antonio Amorosi – Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome * Jakub Bogdan – Slovak still-life painter * Felice Cignani – Italian painter from Bologna , son of Carlo Cignani...
) - Francisco LeonardoniFrancisco LeonardoniFrancisco Leonardoni was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Spain.He was born in Venice, where he studied but was forced to leave the republic and travelled through various parts of Europe, till he settled at Madrid in 1680. There he distinguished himself by his portrait...
, Italian painter active mainly in SpainSpainSpain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
(b. 16541654 in art-Events:* October 12 – The Delft Explosion destroys the city of Delft, killing painter Carel Fabritius when his home, studio, and most of his paintings were destroyed: only 5 paintings are known to exist.-Paintings:...
) - Domenico Maria VianiDomenico Maria VianiDomenico Maria Viani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Bologna, the son of Giovanni Maria Viani, was born at Bologna, and was educated under his father, who kept a rival academy to that of Carlo Cignani...
, ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
painter of churches, born in BolognaBolognaBologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
(b. 16681668 in art-Events:*The Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford is completed, to a design by Sir Christopher Wren.-Works:*Charles Le Brun – La Colère*Johannes Vermeer – The Astronomer-Births:*date unknown**Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor...
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- Maria Vittoria Cassana