1757 in art

Overview of the events of 1757 in art

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Events from the year 1757 in art.

## Works

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Mezzotint (1863) of Martha Washington made by John Chester Buttre, drawn by W. Oliver Stone after the original by John Wollaston, painted in 1757

* Giovanni Battista Cipriani – Decoration of Lord Mayor of London's State Coach
* Arthur Devis
* Arthur Holdsworth Conversing with Thomas Taylor and Captain Stancombe by the River Dart
* Portrait of Juliana Penn
* Anton Raphael Mengs – The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
* Giovanni Paolo Panini – Modern Rome (first two versions)
* Joshua Reynolds – Miss Margaret Morris
* Claude Joseph Vernet – Four Times of the Day (series of four paintings)
* John Wollaston – Portraits made in Virginia, including
* Martha Dandridge Custis (illustrated)
* Mann Page and his sister Elizabeth (approximate date)

## Births

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* January 10 \- Joseph Kreutzinger, Austrian portrait painter (died 1829)
* January 23 \- Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini, Italian portrait and caricature painter (died 1839)
* March 21 – James Sowerby, naturalist and illustrator (died 1822)
* April 22 – Josef Grassi, Austrian portrait painter (died 1838)
* July 24 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-born painter especially of Russian portraiture (died 1825)
* August 4 – Guillaume-Joseph Roques, painter (died 1847)
* August 17 – Adam Bartsch, Austrian scholar, artist, and printmaker in engraving and etching (died 1821)
* November 1 – Antonio Canova, sculptor (died 1822)
* November 28 – William Blake, English painter, poet and engraver (died 1827)
* December 2 – Pierre Cartellier, French sculptor (died 1831)
* December 5 – Jean-Pierre Casimir de Marcassus, Baron de Puymaurin, French chemist, medallist, politician, and man of letters (died 1841)
* date unknown
* John Alefounder, English portrait and miniature painter (died 1795)
* Joseph Barber, English landscape painter and art teacher (died 1811)
* Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi, Italian engraver, art dealer, and merchant (died 1821)
* Alexandre-Hyacinthe Dunouy, French landscape painter (died 1841)
* Vicente Escobar, Cuban painter (died 1834)
* Abraham Ezekiel Ezekiel, English engraver (died 1806)
* Thomas Hardy, English portrait painter (died c. 1805))
* Nathaniel Plimer, miniaturist (died 1822)
* Mustafa Râkim, Ottoman calligrapher (died 1826)
* Sampson Towgood Roch, Irish painter of miniatures (died 1847)
* William Verstille, American portrait artist (died 1803)

## Deaths

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* February 26 \- Maria Moninckx, Dutch botanical artist and painter (born 1673)
* February 27 – Pier Francesco Guala, Italian painter active in Casale Monferrato (born 1698)
* March 12 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena (born 1696), Italian designer, second son of Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, most distinguished artist of the Galli-Bibiena family
* April 15
* Rosalba Carriera, Venetian miniaturist (born 1675)
* Franz Joseph Spiegler, German fresco painter (born 1691)
* April 16 – Daniel Gran, Austrian painter of frescoes and altar paintings (born 1694)
* June 26 – Jan Antonín Vocásek, Czech Baroque still-life painter (born 1706)
* August 5 – Antoine Pesne, French-born court painter of Prussia (born 1683)
* August 6 – Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian Baroque painter (born 1673)
* September 3 \- Odvardt Helmoldt von Lode, Danish painter and engraver (born 1726)
* September 21 \- Pieter Jan Snyers, Flemish painter (born 1696)
* October 21 (bur.) \- Rhoda Delaval, English portrait painter (born 1725)
* date unknown
* Francesco Albotto, Italian painter (born 1721)
* Francesco Ange, Italian painter (born 1675)
* Erik Westzynthius the Elder, Finnish painter (born 1711)
* Antonio Maria Zanetti, Italian artist especially of woodcuts (born 1680)