1730 in art

Births

• January 15 – Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna (died 1766)
• January 22 – Johan Edvard Mandelberg, Swedish-born painter (died 1786)
• April 1 – Solomon Gessner, Swiss painter and poet (died 1788)
• April 11 – Josef Kramolín, Czech fresco painter (died 1802)
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (died 1795)
• July 31 – Charles-Antoine Bridan, French sculptor (died 1805)
• September 19 – Augustin Pajou, French sculptor (died 1809)
• November 2 – Giovanni Battista Casanova, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1795)
• November 3 – Pierre-Simon-Benjamin Duvivier, French engraver of coins and medals (died 1819)
• date unknown
• Jacques-François Amand, French historical painter (died 1769)
• James Basire, English engraver who apprenticed William Blake (died 1802)
• Antonio Capellini, Italian engraver (died unknown)
• Niccolò Carissa, Italian painter of still-life specimens of flowers, vegetables, and birds (died unknown)
• Teodor Kračun, Serbian painter, active mainly in North Serbia (died 1781)
• Niccolò Lapiccola, Italian painter (died 1790)
• Dionigi Valesi, Italian printmaker active in Verona and Venice (died 1780)
• Min Zhen, Chinese painter and seal carver born in Nanchang in Jiangxi (died 1788)
• probable
• (b. 1730/1738): Aleijadinho, colonial Brazil-born sculptor and architect (died 1814)
• (b. 1730/1732): Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (died 1794)
• Alexander Bannermann, English engraver (died unknown)
• George Barret, Sr., Irish landscape artist (died 1784)
• Gabriele Bella, Italian Baroque painter (died 1799)
• Robert Carver, Irish painter especially of theater scenery (died 1791)
• Dorning Rasbotham, English writer and painter (died 1791)

Deaths

• February 12 – Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutista) (born 1663)
• February 26 – Johann Peter Alexander Wagner, Rococo sculptor (died 1809)
• March 30 – Jaime Mosen Ponz, Spanish painter (born 1671)
• July 18 – Tommaso Dossi, Italian painter from Verona (born 1678)
• October 25 – Johann Michael Rottmayr, Austrian painter (born 1656)
• October 29 – Jean Louis Petitot, French enamel painter (born 1652)
• October 30 – Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter of genre works (born 1655)
• November 10 – Gregorio Lazzarini, Italian painter of religious subjects and those from history and mythology (born 1657)
• November 21 – François de Troy, French painter, father of Jean-François de Troy (born 1645)
• December – Alida Withoos, Dutch botanical artist and painter (born 1661/1662)
• date unknown
• Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian still-life painter, active in Rome (born 1659)
• Huang Ding, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (born 1650)
• Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian engraver (born 1659)
• Giovanni Battista Parodi, Italian fresco painter (born 1674)
• Sieuwert van der Meulen, Dutch painter (born 1663)
• Marc van Duvenede, Flemish painter (born 1674)
• François-Alexandre Verdier, French painter, draftsman and engraver (born 1651)
• probable
• Pietro Nelli, Italian portrait painter (born 1672)
• Clemente de Torres, Spanish Baroque painter of Genoese origin (born 1662)

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