1746 in art

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Events from the year 1746 in art.

## Events

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* The Venetian painter Canaletto moves to London, beginning a nine-year stay in England to be closer to his market.[1]
* The French philosopher Charles Batteux publishes Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of les beaux arts, the fine arts.[2]

## Paintings

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Canaletto's painting of Westminster Bridge

* Canaletto
* A Most Beautiful View of the City of London Taken Through One of the Centres of the Arches of the New Bridge at Westminster (Alnwick Castle, Northumberland)
* Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames (c.1746-47; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut)
* Elias Gottlob Haussmann – Johann Sebastian Bach
* Thomas Hudson – Theodore Jacobsen
* John Smybert – Sir William Pepperrell, Bt
* Giovanni Battista Tiepolo \- St. Catherine of Siena[3]

## Births

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* March 9 – François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor (died 1832)
* March 22 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (died 1822)
* March 30 – Francisco Goya, Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker (died 1828)
* June 6 – Francesco Saverio Mergalo, Italian portrait painter of the Rococo or late-Baroque period (died 1786)
* October 22 – James Northcote, English painter (died 1831)
* November 11 – Jean Guillaume Moitte, French sculptor (died 1810)
* December 30 – François-André Vincent, French painter (died 1816)
* date unknown
* Luis Paret y Alcázar, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (died 1799)
* Anthonie Andriessen, Dutch landscape painter (died 1813)
* William Ashford, British painter who worked exclusively in Ireland (died 1824)
* Domenico Aspari, Italian painter and engraver (died 1831)
* Etienne Aubry, French painter of primarily portraits and genre subjects (died 1781)
* Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (died 1793)
* John Bogle, Scottish miniature painter (died 1803)
* Joseph Boze, French portrait and miniature painter (died 1826)
* Teodor Ilić Češljar, one of the best late Baroque and Rococo Serbian painters from the region of Vojvodina (died 1793)
* Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher (died 1807)
* Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver (died 1793)
* Xi Gang, renowned Chinese calligrapher and painter in Qing Dynasty (died 1803)
* Philippe-Laurent Roland, French sculptor (died 1816)
* Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver (died 1801)
* Henry Walton, British painter and art dealer (died 1813)

## Deaths

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* February 22 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor and academician (born 1677)
* March 20 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (born 1656)
* March 29 – Matteo Ripa, painter, engraver and missionary (born 1682)
* June 8 – Giacomo Leoni, architect (born 1686)
* July 30 – Francesco Trevisani, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1656)
* December 31 – Antonio Baroni, Italian painter active in Verona (born 1678)
* date unknown
* Domenico Bocciardo, Italian painter, active in Genoa (born 1680)
* Jan Baptist Bosschaert, Flemish painter (born 1667)
* Sebastiano Galeotti, peripatetic Italian painter (born 1656)
* Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue, Italian potter and painter (born 1686)
* Theodor van Pee, Dutch painter (born 1668)

## References

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1. ^ Macfall, Haldane (2004). A History of Painting. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1-4179-4508-7.
2. ^ Kristeller, Paul Oskar, "The Modern System of the Arts" (1951-1952) repr. in Kristeller, Renaissance Thought and the Arts (New York: Harper & Row, 1965) pp. 163-227. Batteux's full treatise has not been translated into English, but key passages regarding the idea of les beaux arts are translated in Feagin, S.; Maynard, P. (ed.), Aesthetics (Oxford University Press, 1997) pp. 102-104.
3. ^ "8 Things to Know and Share About St. Catherine of Siena".

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