1766 in art explained

Events from the year 1766 in art.

Events

• July 19 – A baronetcy is created for British sculptor Henry Cheere.
• England's oldest surviving Georgian theatre is constructed in Stockton-on-Tees.
• The Drottningholm Palace Theatre is reopened as an opera house in Stockholm, Sweden, in its surviving form, designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz.
• Denis Diderot's Essais sur la peinture is published.

Works

• Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of David Garrick with a bust of Shakespeare (probably originally painted; lost)
• Jean-Antoine Houdon – Bruno of Cologne (sculpture for Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome)
• Maruyama Ōkyo – Crows
• Allan Ramsay – Portrait of David Hume
• Joshua Reynolds – Portrait of John Burgoyne
• Joseph Wright of Derby – A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery^[1]

Births

• March 1 – Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling (died 1819)
• March 2 – Thomas Henry, French painter and art patron (died 1836)
• March 16 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, artist and explorer (died 1875)
• April 1 – François-Xavier Fabre, French painter of historical subjects (died 1837)^[2]
• April 6 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (died 1853)
• September 16 – Jes Bundsen, Danish architectural and landscape painter and etcher (died 1829)
• October 14 – Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (died 1838)
• December 22 – Johann Samuel Arnhold, German painter in oil and water-colours, and on porcelain and enamel (died 1827)
• December 25 – Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (died 1844)
• date unknown
  • Pierre-Charles Bridan, French sculptor (died 1836)^[3]
  • Mariano Gerada, sculptor and woodworker (died 1823)

Deaths

• January 7 – Giacomo Boni, Italian painter (born 1688)
• January 19 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter (born 1695)^[4]
• March 4 – Joseph Aved, also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), French Rococo portraitist (born 1702)
• May 5 – Olof Arenius, Swedish portrait painter (born 1701)
• June 22 – Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (born 1696)^[5]
• July 17 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the court of the Emperor (b. 1688)^[6]
• July 18 – Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna (b. 1730)
• August 13 – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English heiress and painter (b. 1726)^[7]
• November 7
  • Vincenzo Meucci, Italian painter whose patrons included Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (b. 1694)
  • Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (b. 1685)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Consetti, Italian historical painter (b. 1686)
  • William Elliott, English engraver (born 1727)

Notes and References

1. Book: Cosgrove, Denis. Daniels, Stephen. The Iconography of Landscape: Essays on the Symbolic Representation, Design and Use of Past Environments. 1988. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-38915-0. 120.
2. Book: John Denison Champlin. Charles Callahan Perkins. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. 1913. C. Scribner's sons. 36.
3. Book: Musee de Peinture et de Sculpture. 1834. 14.
4. Book: Louise Pelletier. Architecture in Words: Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture. 27 September 2006. Routledge. 978-1-134-15929-1. 199.
5. Book: Schiavone. Michael J.. Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. II G-Z. 2009. Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. Pietà. 9789993291329. 1711.
6. Book: Cécile Beurdeley. Michel Beurdeley. Giuseppe Castiglione: A Jesuit Painter at the Court of the Chinese Emperors. 1972. Lund Humphries. 978-0-8048-0987-0. 59.
7. Book: Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte. A History of Dunster and of the Families of Mohun & Luttrell. 1909. St. Catherine Press Limited. 227.