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Events
- Galleria nazionale di Parma established.
Paintings
- Thomas Gainsborough
- The Artist`s Daughters, Molly and Peggy
- Sunset
- Joshua Reynolds – Portrait of Mrs Day
Births
- January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (d. 1832)
- January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (d. 1826)
- March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (d. 1832)
- March 4 – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey (d. 1830)
- March 6 – Dora Stock, portrait painter (d. 1832)
- March 16 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (d. 1832)
- April 13 – Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter (d. 1830)
- October/November – Hokusai, Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period (d. 1849)
- October 1 – William Thomas Beckford, art critic (d. 1844)
- October 12 – Charles Paul Landon, French painter and writer on art and artists (d. 1826)
- November 11 – Landolin Ohmacht, German sculptor (d. 1834)
- date unknown
- Asensio Juliá, Spanish painter and engraver (d. 1832)
- Pierre-Antoine Bellangé, furniture designer (d. 1844)
- Giovanni Cendramini, Italian painter and engraver (d. 1839)
- probable – Lemuel Francis Abbott, English portrait painter (d. 1802)
Deaths
- January 23 – Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, an Italian painter, 1756 co-founder of the Venetian Academy (b. 1699)
- April 11 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter (b. 1675)
- July 18 – Philip Mercier, portrait painter (b. 1690)
- November 20 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter (born 1717)
- date unknown
- Francesco Conti, Venetian painter (b. 1681)
- Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (b. 1723)
- Yi Insang, Korean painter and government officer of the late Joseon period (b. 1710)
- Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (b. 1727)
- Shen Quan, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (b. 1682)