1768 in art

Events

• December 10 - Royal Academy founded in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first President.^[1]
• Tilly Kettle becomes the first English painter to work in India.

Paintings

Joseph Wright, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768, National Gallery, London

• Benjamin West, General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian
• Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump

Births

• March 10 - Domingos Sequeira, Portuguese painter (died 1837)
• April 18 - Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter of lithographs depicting the people of Brazil (died 1848)
• July 27 - Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement (died 1839)
• August 22 - Josef Abel, historical painter and etcher (died 1818)
• December 18 - Marie-Guillemine Benoist, French neoclassical, historical and genre painter (died 1826)
• December 22 - John Crome, English artist in the Romantic era (died 1821)
• date unknown
  • Andrey Yefimovich Martynov, Russian painter and engraver (died 1826)
  • Charlotta Malm-Reuterholm, Finnish painter (died 1845)

Deaths

• April 10 - Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice (born 1697)
• April 14 - Francesco Monti - Italian painter frescoes (born 1683)
• June 11 - Stefano Pozzi - Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator (died 1699/1707)
• November 5 - Giorgio Duranti, Italian painter of still lifes (born 1683)
• December 8 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (born 1702)
• date unknown
  • Miguel Cabrera, indigenous Zapotec painter, (born 1695)
  • Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Italian painter and engraver from Florence (born 1692)
  • Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style (born 1685)
  • Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Italian, Rococo style painter from Florence (born 1692)

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