Art year 1757

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Overview of the Art Years
Further events

Events

• Count Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov opens the Academy of the Three Noble Arts in Saint Petersburg , which is housed in his house until 1764 .
• The construction of the Panthéon in Paris is approved. Another seven years will pass before the foundation stone is laid.

Born

• January 10 : Joseph Kreutzinger , Austrian portrait painter († 1829 )
• January 16 : Samuel McIntire , American architect and artist († 1811 )

• February 10 : Johann August Arens , German architect, landscape designer and painter († 1810 )
• March 21 : James Sowerby , British naturalist, zoologist and painter († 1822 )
• April 22 : Josef Mathias Grassi , Austrian history and portrait painter († 1838 )

• August 2 : Johann Heinrich Schmidt , German painter († 1821 )
• August 4th : Wladimir Lukitsch Borowikowski , Russian portrait painter († 1825 )
• August 13 : James Gillray , British cartoonist († 1815 )
• August 17 : Adam von Bartsch , Austrian artist and art writer and founder of systematic-critical graphic studies († 1821 )
• September 14 : Jean-Jacques Lequeu , French architect († 1826 )

• November 1 : Antonio Canova , Italian sculptor († 1822 )
• November 28 : William Blake , English poet, nature mystic, painter and the inventor of relief etching († 1827 )
• December 28 : Reinhard Woltman , German hydraulic engineer († 1837 )

Died

Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

• March 12 : Giuseppe Galli da Bibiena , Italian set designer, draftsman, architect, theater engineer and painter (* 1696 )
• April 15 : Franz Joseph Spiegler , German painter (* 1691 )

Rosalba Carriera, self-portrait around 1750

• April 15 : Rosalba Carriera , Italian painter (* 1675 )
• April 16 : Daniel Gran , Austrian painter (* 1694 )

• June 11 : Martin Aumüller , Bohemian sculptor and wood carver (* 1697 )
• June 15 : Johann Caspar Bagnato , Palatine builder (* 1696 )
• August 5th : Antoine Pesne , French court painter in Prussia (* 1683 )

• September 25 : Johann Christoph Sauer , first German book printer in North America (* 1695 )
• October 2 : Johann Adam Groß the Elder , German builder (* 1697 )
• October 25 : Anton Sturm , German sculptor (* 1690 )

Philipp von Stosch during his studies, on the right a servant holding up a bottle; Pier Leone Ghezzi contemporary pen drawing

• November 7th : Philipp von Stosch , German diplomat, antiquarian, antique collector, numismatist and gemologist (* 1691 )
• December 1 : Johann Leonhard Prey , German architect and stonemason (* around 1700 )

See also

Portal: Fine Arts  - Overview of Wikipedia content on the subject of fine arts

Web links

Commons : Art 1757  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files