1754 in art
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- Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce founded in EnglandEnglandEngland 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...
by William ShipleyWilliam ShipleyWilliam Shipley was an English drawing master, social reformer and inventor who, in 1754, founded an arts society in London that became The Royal Society of Arts, or Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce, .-Early years, training and career:Shipley was born in...
Births
- May 8 – Amos DoolittleAmos DoolittleAmos Doolittle was an American engraver and silversmith, known as "The Revere of Connecticut."A self-taught artist from Cheshire, CT, Doolittle became an expert in copper engraving and specialized in scenes of the American Revolutionary war...
, engraver (d. 18321832 in art-Awards:*Prix de Rome**for painting – Antoine Wiertz**for sculpture – François Jouffroy-Works:*Hokusai – The Great Wave off Kanagawa-Births:*January 6 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator *January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter,...
) - May 10 – Asmus Jacob CarstensAsmus Jacob CarstensAsmus Jacob Carstens was a Danish-German painter.-Biography:He was born in Sanct Jürgen near Schleswig to a miller. He had a youthful passion for painting, but was placed in a mercantile house...
, Danish-German (d. 17981798 in art-Works:*William Beechey – George III and the Prince of Wales reviewing troops*François Gérard – Cupid and Psyche*Antoine-Jean Gros – Le pont d'Arcole-Births:*February 17 – Josef Navrátil, Bohemian painter of paintings, murals, and frescos...
) - May 17 – Antoine BerjonAntoine BerjonAntoine Berjon was a French painter and designer, among the most important flower painters of 19th-century France...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
painter and designer (d. 18431843 in art-Events:*August – Richard Dadd, taken to the country by his family to recover from a mental breakdown, murders his father.*John Ruskin's Modern Painters is published.-Births:*March 3 – Aleksander Sochaczewski, Polish painter...
) - May 31 – Andrea AppianiAndrea AppianiAndrea Appiani was an Italian neoclassical painter.-Biography:He was born in Milan. He had been intended to follow his father's career in medicine but instead entered the private academy of the painter Carlo Maria Giudici . He received instruction in drawing, copying mainly from sculpture and prints...
, neoclassical painter (d. 18171817 in art-Works:*François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn*John Constable – Flatford Mill-Births:*January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, painter *February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, painter...
) - August 2 – Pierre Charles L'EnfantPierre Charles L'EnfantPierre Charles L'Enfant was a French-born American architect and civil engineer best known for designing the layout of the streets of Washington, D.C..-Early life:...
, FrenchFrench peopleThe French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
architect/artist (d. 18251825 in art-Births:*February 4 – Myles Birket Foster, illustrator and watercolour painter *March 13 – Hans Gude, painter *May 1 – Eleanor Vere Boyle, watercolorist *May 9 – James Collinson, Pre-Raphaelite painter...
) - October 9 – Jean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste RegnaultJean-Baptiste Regnault was a French painter.Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to Italy by M. de Monval under the care of Bardin...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
painter (d. 18291829 in art-Events:*Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin and his brother Jean Paul Flandrin set out to walk to Paris from Lyons, in order to become pupils of Louis Hersent.-Paintings:*Karl Blechen – Tivoli*Eugène Delacroix – Sardanapalus...
) - December 20 – Francesco MannoFrancesco MannoFrancesco Manno was an Italian painter and architect. Born at Palermo in 1754, he began life as a goldsmith, but afterwards devoted himself to painting. In 1786 he settled at Rome, and became the Secretary of the Accademia di San Luca. He was employed by Pope Pius VI. On 13 July 1794 he became a...
, Italian painter and architect (d. 18311831 in art-Events:*Clarkson Stanfield's spectacular panorama Venice and Its Adjacent Islands is staged in London as part of the annual Christmas pantomime.-Births:*October 26 – Nathaniel Hone the Younger, Irish painter *date unknown...
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- Kim Deuk-sin – KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
n painter, official painter of the JoseonJoseon DynastyJoseon , was a Korean state founded by Taejo Yi Seong-gye that lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo at what is today the city of Kaesong. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day Seoul...
court (d. 18221822 in art-Works:*Nicéphore Niépce creates first permanent photograph through his heliographic process*Eugène Delacroix – The Barque of Dante *Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – Anchises and Venus*Louis Hersent – Ruth...
) - Ivan MartosIvan MartosIvan Petrovich Martos was a Russian sculptor and art teacher of Ukrainian origin who helped awaken Russian interest in Neoclassical sculpture....
, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n-UkrainianUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
sculptor and art teacher (d. 18351835 in art-Works:*John Constable – The Valley Farm*Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot – Hagar in the Desert-Births:*March 31 – John LaFarge, painter and stained-glass artist *June 15 – Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, painter and poet...
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- Kim Deuk-sin – Korea
Deaths
- April 28
- Roland ParadisRoland Paradis (silversmith)Roland Paradis was an important silversmith in Canada.Paradis was born in Paris to Claude Paradis and Geneviève Cussy. His father was a silversmith, and likely taught his son the trade. Paradis moved to Canada sometime before 1728...
, silversmith (b. 16961696 in art-Births:* Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian designer/painter * Kim Du-ryang – Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period * Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu...
) - Giovanni Battista PiazzettaGiovanni Battista PiazzettaGiovanni Battista Piazzetta was an Italian rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes.-Biography:...
, 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...
rococoRococoRococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...
painter (b. 16821682 in art-Births: *February 13 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian rococo painter *April 15 – Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter *August 15 - Annibale Albani, Italian Cardinal, whose library, gallery of paintings/sculpture, and cabinet of coins were added to the Vatican collection *October 24 - William Aikman...
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- Roland Paradis
- May 2 – Thomas RestoutThomas RestoutThomas Restout was a French painter. The son of Marc Restout, he belonged to the Restout dynasty of painters and was mainly a portraitist.-References:...
, French painter (b. 16711671 in art-Events:*The Discalced Carmelites of Vilnius build a wooden chapel to house the painting Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn.-Works:*Gerard de Lairesse – Three ceiling paintings for Andries de Graeff, now at the Peace Palace in The Hague...
) - December 1 – Jean-Joseph VinacheJean-Joseph VinacheJean-Joseph Vinache was a French sculptor who served as court sculptor to Kurfürst Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony, whose equestrian monument, the Goldener Reiter, the "gilded Horseman", is one of the most familiar sights of Dresden, Germany, though its sculptor is rarely noted.Vinache was...
, French sculptor (b. 16961696 in art-Births:* Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian designer/painter * Kim Du-ryang – Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period * Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu...
) - date unknown – Fedor Leontyevich ArgunovArgunovArgunov - family of artists and architects, serfs of counts Sheremetev. They worked in Moscow and in Sheremetev’s mansions , and also in St.Petersburg.*Fedor Leontyevich Argunov - the painter....
, RussiaRussiaRussia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n painter (b. 17161716 in art-Births:*March 19 – Guillaume Coustou the Younger, painter *March 25 – Alexei Antropov, Russian barocco painter *June 18 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter *December 1 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French Rococo sculptor...
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