Events from the year 1750 in art.
Events
- The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia is founded by the Venetian Senate as Venice’s school of painting, sculpture, and architecture, with Giovanni Battista Piazzetta as its first president.
- Marcello Bacciarelli enters the service of Augustus, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland.
Works
- Jean Barbault paints Neapolitan Herder and a Cow leaving a Cave (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, France)
- Canaletto paints
- Bacino di S. Marco: From the Piazzetta (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia)
- Greenwich Hospital from the North Bank of the Thames
- The Thames from the Terrace of Somerset House, Looking toward St. Paul's (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut)
- A View of the Molo and the Riva degli Schiavone in Venice (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven)
- Andrea Casali paints Lucretia (approximate date)
- Nihâl Chand paints Bani Thani (approximate date)
- Filippo della Valle carves the Annunziata bas-relief at Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome
- Georg Desmarées paints The Artist with his daughter Antonia (approximate date) and Portrait of Maria Rosa Walburga von Soyer
- Thomas Gainsborough paints Mr and Mrs Andrews
- William Hogarth paints the satirical The March of the Guards to Finchley
- Thomas Hudson – Portrait of William Shirley[1]
- Maruyama Okyo paints The Ghost of Oyuki in ink on silk
- Samuel Scott – An Arch of Westminster Bridge
- Frans van der Mijn paints a portrait of the English politician, architect and collector Sir Thomas Robinson, 1st Baronet
- Claude Joseph Vernet
- A Sporting Contest on the Tiber
- a Times of Day series
Births
- March 9 – Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (Leipziger Tischbein), German painter (died 1812)
- June 5 – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (died 1817)
- July 21 – Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (died 1850)
- October 30 – Jan Bulthuis, Dutch draftsman and painter (died 1801)
- December 6 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (died 1819)
- December 8 – Giuseppe Cades, Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver (died 1799)
- date unknown
- Luigi Agricola, Italian painter and jeweler (died 1821)
- John Boyne, British water-colour painter (died 1810)
- P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, French draughtsman and engraver (died unknown)
- Manuel de la Cruz, Spanish painter (died 1792)
- John Downman, English portrait painter (died 1824)
- George Engleheart, English painter of portrait miniatures (died 1829)
- Ludwig Guttenbrunn, Austrian painter (died 1816)
- Francesco Pozzi, Italian engraver (died 1805)
- Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (died 1808)
- Stefano Tofanelli, Italian painter during the Neoclassic period (died 1810)
- François Marie Suzanne, French sculptor, who created a terracotta figure of Benjamin Franklin in 1793
Deaths
- March 7 – Cornelis Troost, Dutch painter (born 1697)
- April - Guillaume Taraval, Swedish painter of French descent (born 1701)
- April 29 – Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor (born 1692)
- June 25 - Diego Francesco Carlone, Italian sculptor (born 1674)
- July 31 – Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer (born 1695)
- August 12 – Rachel Ruysch, Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers (born 1664)
- August 20 – Nishikawa Sukenobu, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker from Kyoto (born 1671)
- date unknown
- Francesco Boccaccino, Italian painter, born at Cremona (born 1680)
- Mattia Bortoloni, Italian Rococo painter (born 1696)
- Leonardo Coccorante, Italian painter especially of large, highly detailed landscapes with imaginary classical architectural ruins (born 1680)
- Antonio David, Italian portrait painter, especially of the House of Stuart (born 1698)
- Jan Griffier II, English painter (born 1688)
- Philipp Ferdinand de Hamilton, painter from the Southern Netherlands active in Austria (born 1664)
- probable – Robert Griffier, Dutch landscape painter (born 1688)