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Overview of the events of 1756 in art
Events from the year 1756 in art.
Events
Paintings
François Boucher, Madame de Pompadour, 1756
Births
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January 6 –
Gaspare Landi, Italian Neoclassical painter (died
1830)
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February 12 –
Joseph Chinard, French sculptor who worked in a
Neoclassical style (died
1813)
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March 4 –
Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter (died
1823)
[1]
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April 26 –
Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (died
1812)
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May 23 –
Charles Clément Balvay, French engraver mainly working in
intaglio and exclusively in
burin (died
1822)
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June 3 –
Louis-François Cassas, French landscape painter, sculptor and architect (died
1827)
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June 6 –
John Trumbull, American painter (died
1843)
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July 14 –
Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and
caricaturist (died
1827)
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August 13 –
James Gillray, British caricaturist (died
1815)
[2]
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October 22 -
Samuel Alken, English sculptor and engraver (died
1815)
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December 7 –
Cornelis van Spaendonck,
Dutch painter (died
1839)
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December 17 –
Edme Quenedey des Ricets, French painter and engraver, especially miniatures (died
1830)
- date unknown
Deaths
References