1746 in art

Births

• March 9 – François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor (died 1832)
• March 22 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter (died 1822)
• March 30 – Francisco Goya, Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker (died 1828)
• June 6 – Francesco Saverio Mergalo, Italian portrait painter of the Rococo or late-Baroque period (died 1786)
• October 22 – James Northcote, English painter (died 1831)
• November 11 – Jean Guillaume Moitte, French sculptor (died 1810)
• December 30 – François-André Vincent, French painter (died 1816)
• date unknown
• Luis Paret y Alcázar, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (died 1799)
• Anthonie Andriessen, Dutch landscape painter (died 1813)
• William Ashford, British painter who worked exclusively in Ireland (died 1824)
• Domenico Aspari, Italian painter and engraver (died 1831)
• Etienne Aubry, French painter of primarily portraits and genre subjects (died 1781)
• Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (died 1793)
• John Bogle, Scottish miniature painter (died 1803)
• Joseph Boze, French portrait and miniature painter (died 1826)
• Teodor Ilić ČeÅ¡ljar, one of the best late Baroque and Rococo Serbian painters from the region of Vojvodina (died 1793)
• Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher (died 1807)
• Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver (died 1793)
• Xi Gang, renowned Chinese calligrapher and painter in Qing Dynasty (died 1803)
• Philippe-Laurent Roland, French sculptor (died 1816)
• Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver (died 1801)
• Henry Walton, British painter and art dealer (died 1813)

Deaths

• February 22 – Guillaume Coustou the Elder, French sculptor and academician (born 1677)
• March 20 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (born 1656)
• March 29 – Matteo Ripa, painter, engraver and missionary (born 1682)
• June 8 – Giacomo Leoni, architect (born 1686)
• July 30 – Francesco Trevisani, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1656)
• December 31 – Antonio Baroni, Italian painter active in Verona (born 1678)
• date unknown
• Domenico Bocciardo, Italian painter, active in Genoa (born 1680)
• Jan Baptist Bosschaert, Flemish painter (born 1667)
• Sebastiano Galeotti, peripatetic Italian painter (born 1656)
• Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue, Italian potter and painter (born 1686)
• Theodor van Pee, Dutch painter (born 1668)

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