1735 in art

Events from the year 1735 in art.

Events

February 18 Ã¢ÂÂ The English ballad opera Flora goes down in recorded history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (in Charleston, South Carolina).
June 25 Ã¢ÂÂ In Great Britain, the Engraving Copyright Act ('Hogarth's Act') takes effect on being given royal assent, the first of a series of British copyright protection laws, to protect original engravings against unauthorized copies.
William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress series of paintings are published as engraved prints in London.
The Chandos Mausoleum is constructed for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos in St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch, north of London, decorated in a classical trompe-l'ÃÂil style by Gaetano Brunetti.
Guillaume Coustou the Younger is awarded the Prix de Rome.

Paintings

Jacopo Amigoni
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Canaletto
The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo (1730Ã¢ÂÂ1735) (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England)
The Feast Day of Saint Roch (1735)
The Molo, Venice (approximate date) (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas)
A Regatta on the Grand Canal (1730Ã¢ÂÂ1735) (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England)
Venice: A Regatta on the Grand Canal (National Gallery, London)
View of the Piazzetta San Marco Looking South (approximate date) (Indianapolis Museum of Art)
Jean-Baptiste-SimÃÂ©on Chardin
Boy building a House of Cards (probable first version; Waddesdon Manor, England)
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A Lady Taking Tea

Agostino Masucci Ã¢ÂÂ The Solemnisation of the Marriage of James III and Maria Clementina Sobieska

Charles-Joseph Natoire Ã¢ÂÂ '
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Ã¢ÂÂ ' (The Louvre)

Sculptures

Unknown sculptor - Equestrian statue of William III, Glasgow

Births

January 18 Ã¢ÂÂ Jeremiah Meyer, German-born English miniaturist (died 1789)

May Ã¢ÂÂ Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter (died 1822)

May 8 Ã¢ÂÂ Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and later a politician (died 1811)

June 16 Ã¢ÂÂ Nicolas Bernard LÃÂ©piciÃÂ©, French painter (died 1784)

July 10 Ã¢ÂÂ Ulrika Pasch, Swedish miniaturist (died 1796)

October 17 Ã¢ÂÂ Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School (died 1803)

December 20 Ã¢ÂÂ Friedrich August Brand, Austrian painter and engraver of historical subjects and landscapes (died 1806)

December 29 Ã¢ÂÂ Thomas Banks, sculptor (died 1805)

date unknown

Dimitrije BaÃÂeviÃÂ, Serbian icon painter and muralist (died 1770)

Samuel Collins, British miniature painter (died 1768)

Tilly Kettle, English portrait painter (died 1786)

Isoda Koryusai, Japanese printmaker and painter (died 1790)

ÃÂtienne de La VallÃÂ©e Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes (died 1802)

James Tassie, Scottish engraver (died 1799)

Giovanni Volpato, Italian engraver, excavator, dealer in antiquities and manufacturer of biscuit porcelain figurines (died 1803)

Deaths

January 21 Ã¢ÂÂ Abraham Rademaker, Dutch painter and printmaker (born 1677)

March 4 Ã¢ÂÂ Antonio Beduzzi, Austrian-Italian theater engineer, painter, and architect (born 1675)

July 1 Ã¢ÂÂ Jean Ranc, French portrait painter (born 1674)

July 16 Ã¢ÂÂ Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, British historian, travel writer and artist (born 1670)

December 11 Ã¢ÂÂ Antoine Rivalz, official painter to the town of Toulouse (born 1667)

date unknown

Pompeo Aldrovandini, Italian painter (born 1677)

Antonio Dardani, Italian painter (born 1677)

Nunzio Ferraiuoli, Italian painter (born 1661)

PÃÂ¢rvu Mutul, Romanian muralist and church painter (born 1657)

Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli, Italian Rococo sculptor (born 1654)

References