1763 in art
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Events from the year 1763 in art.
Events
- In Venice
- Canaletto and Francesco Zuccarelli are elected to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
- Francesco Guardi begins painting the 12 Doge's Feasts series.
Paintings
- François Boucher – The Judgement of Paris
- John Singleton Copley – Portraits of James Warren and Mercy Otis Warren
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze – The Broken Mirror
- Francesco Guardi – Miracle of a Dominican Saint (for San Pietro Martire (Murano))
- Matthäus Günther – Frescos in Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Marinus and St. Anianus, Rott am Inn
- Philip James de Loutherbourg – Landscape with Figures and Animals
- Dominic Serres – Princess Charlotte Arriving at Harwich
- George Stubbs (approximate date; Tate Britain){{cite book|first=Judy|last=Egerton|title=George Stubbs, Painter: catalogue raisoné|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2007|isbn=9780300125092}}
- [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/stubbs-horse-frightened-by-a-lion-t06869 Horse Frightened by Lion]
- [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/stubbs-horse-devoured-by-a-lion-t02058 Horse Devoured by a Lion]
- Benjamin West
- Cymon and Iphigenia (lost)
- Portrait of Robert Monckton
- Johann Zoffany
- Three sons of the Earl of Bute
- Venice Preserv'd
File:Princess Charlotte Arriving at Harwich, September 1761 RMG BHC0405.tiff|Princess Charlotte Arriving at Harwich by Dominic Serres
Image:James Warren.jpg|Copley – James Warren
File:Robert Moncton Martinique.jpg|Portrait of Robert Monckton by Benjamin West
File:Mrs James Warren (Mercy Otis), by John Singleton Copley.jpg|Copley – Mercy Otis Warren
File:The Broken Mirror (Greuze).jpg|The Broken Mirror by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
File:John Zoffany - David Garrick as Jaffier, Susannah Maria Cibber as Belvidera in Venice Preserved, or The Plot Discovered.jpg|Venice Preserv'd by Johan Zoffany
Births
- June 26 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes (died 1804)
- July 22 – Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker (died 1840)
- August 7 – Johann Jakob Biedermann, Swiss painter and etcher (died 1830)
- November 19 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, art critic (died 1808)
- November 25 – Jean Germain Drouais, French historical painter (died 1788)
- December 12 – Margareta Alströmer, Swedish painter and singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (died 1816)
- date unknown
- Pietro Bettelini, Italian engraver (died 1828)
- Antoine-Denis Chaudet, French sculptor in the neoclassical style (died 1810)
- Joseph-François Ducq, Flemish historical and portrait painter (died 1829)
- Augustin Félix Fortin, French painter of landscapes, and of genre and historical subjects (died 1832)
- Philippe Auguste Hennequin, French painter (died 1833)
- Andrew Plimer, English miniaturist (died 1837)
- Zacarías González Velázquez, Spanish painter (died 1834)
- Andries Vermeulen, Dutch painter (died 1814)
Deaths
- January 3 – Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (born 1668)
- January 21 – Jean-François Oeben, cabinet-maker (born 1721)
- March 4 – Johan Hörner, Swedish-Danish painter (born 1711)
- April – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer, German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School (born 1698)
- April 18 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain modeller (born 1723)
- May 24 – Luis González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (born 1715)
- September 24 – Hendrik Frans van Lint, landscape painter from the Southern Netherlands (born 1684)
- October – Anna Maria Garthwaite, English textile designer (born 1688)
- October 22 – Frans van Mieris jr., Dutch painter (born 1689)
- December 3 – Giuseppe Nogari, Venetian painter of the Rococo, where he painted mainly painted half-body portraits (born 1699)
- date unknown
- Kim Du-ryang, Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period (born 1696)
- Carlo Salis, Italian painter, born in Verona (born 1680)
- Gervase Spencer, English miniaturist (born 1715)
- Jan van Gool, Dutch painter and biographer (born 1685)
- probable – Cao Xueqin, Chinese writer, painter of cliffs and rocks, poet (born 1715)