1764 in art explained

Events from the year 1764 in art.

Events

February - Joshua Reynolds co-founds The Club with writer Samuel Johnson.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art") is published.

April 1 - Barbara Krafft, Austrian portrait painter (died 1825)
April 13 – Giacomo Guardi, Italian veduta painter (died 1835)
April 14 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder (died 1836)
April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann, Saxon-born printer and lithographer (died 1834)
April 30 – Luigi Ademollo, Italian painter (died 1849)
May 11 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter (died 1823)
May 20 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor (died 1850)
July 9 – Louis-Pierre Baltard, architect and engraver (died 1846)
July 12 – Charles Thévenin, neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes (died 1838)
August 22 – Charles Percier, French architect and designer (died 1838)
September 18 – Mauro Gandolfi, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School (died 1834)
October 14 – Ferdinand Runk, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher (died 1834)
October 19 - Johann Christoph Rincklake, German portrait painter (died 1813)
Unknown
- Jacques-Louis Copia, French engraver (died 1799)
- Giovanni Folo, Italian engraver of the Neoclassic period (died 1836)
Probable
- Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1844)

March 13 – Okumura Masanobu, Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter (born 1686)
April 9 – Marco Benefial, Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome (born 1684)
May 3 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, engraver and art critic (born 1712)
July 20 – Peter van Bleeck, portrait painter and engraver (born 1697)
August 23 – Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (born 1726)
September 1 – Sebastiano Conca, Italian painter (born 1680)
October 26 – William Hogarth, English painter credited with pioneering western sequential art (born 1697)
November 13 – John Wootton, English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes (born 1682)
Undated – Francesco Zucchi, Italian engraver (born 1692)