Events

• July 19 - A baronetcy is created for British sculptor Henry Cheere.
• England's oldest surviving Georgian theatre is constructed in Stockton-on-Tees.

Paintings

Maruyama kyo, Crows, 1766; pair of sixfold screens; ink and gold on paper.

• Maruyama kyo, Crows
• Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery

Births

• ?March 16 Jean-Fr d ric Waldeck, artist and explorer (died 1875)
• April 6 Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (died 1853)
• December 25 Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (died 1844)
• date unknown - Mariano Gerada, sculptor and woodworker (died 1823)

Deaths

• January 7 - Giacomo Boni, Italian painter (born 1688)
• January 19 Giovanni Niccol Servandoni, French architect and painter (born 1695)
• July 17 Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the court of the Emperor (b. 1688)
• July 18 Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna (b. 1730)
• November 7 Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (b. 1685)
• date unknown
  • Giacomo Boni, Italian painter (b. 1688)
  • Antonio Consetti, Italian historical painter (b. 1686)
  • Vincenzo Meucci, Italian painter whose patrons included Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (b. 1694)

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