1758 in art

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Events from the year 1758 in art.

Events

Works

George II by Shackleton – this painting was given by the artist in May 1758 to the Foundling Hospital in London, in return for which he was elected a governor and guardian.

• Pompeo Batoni
  • Portrait of Pope Clement
  • Portrait of Sir Wyndham Knatchbull-Wyndham
• Joshua Reynolds – Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond
• Louis-François Roubiliac – Statue of Shakespeare
• John Shackleton – George II

Births

• March 14 – Franz Bauer, Austrian microscopist and botanical artist (died 1840)
• April 4
  • John Hoppner, English portrait painter (died 1810)
  • Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French painter (died 1823)
• June 18 – Robert Bowyer, English miniature painter and publisher (died 1834)
• June 19 – Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, Italian engraver (died 1833)
• August 14 – Carle Vernet, French painter (died 1835)
• September 9 – Alexander Nasmyth, Scottish painter (died 1840)
• October 22 - Friedrich Rehberg, German portrait and historical painter (died 1835)
• December 31 – Johann Heinrich Bleuler, Swiss painter (died 1823)
• date unknown
  • William Billingsley, English painter of porcelain (died 1828)
  • James Fittler, English engraver (died 1835)
  • Hyewon, Korean painter of the Joseon Dynasty (died unknown)
  • Moritz Kellerhoven, Austrian painter (died 1830)
  • Ryōkan, Japanese Sōtō Zen Buddhist monk poet and calligrapher (died 1831)
  • (b. 1756/1758) – Francesco Piranesi, Italian engraver and architect (died 1810)

Deaths

• February 28 – Francesco Maria Raineri, Italian sculptor of battle scenes, landscapes, and vedute with historical or mythologic figures (born 1676)
• March 2 – Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and a prime stucco plasterer during the Baroque (born 1680)
• June 27 – Michelangelo Unterberger, Austrian painter of religious themes (born 1695)
• August - François Hutin, French painter, sculptor and engraver (born 1686)
• August 24 – Bartolomeo Nazari, Italian portraitist of the late-Baroque (born 1693)
• September 9 – Isak Wacklin, Finnish painter (born 1720)
• October – Michael Ford, Irish mezzotint engraver (born unknown)
• October 19 – Agostino Masucci, Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (born 1691)
• date unknown
  • Ciro Adolfi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1683)
  • George Bickham the Elder, English writing master and engraver (born 1684)
  • Giuseppe Dallamano, Italian painter of quadratura in Turin (born 1679)
  • Alonso Miguel de Tovar, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (born 1678)