1766 in art

Events from the year 1766 in art. == Events == 21 April – The Exhibition of 1766 opens at Spring Gardens in London 19 July – A baronetcy is created for British sculptor Henry Cheere. England's oldest surviving Georgian theatre is constructed in Stockton-on-Tees. The Drottningholm Palace Theatre is reopened as an opera house in Stockholm, Sweden, in its surviving form, designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz. Denis Diderot's Essais sur la peinture is published. == Works == Pompeo Batoni – Portrait of William Gordon Nathaniel Dance-Holland – The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of David Garrick with a bust of Shakespeare (probably originally painted; lost) Jean-Antoine Houdon – Bruno of Cologne (sculpture for Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome) Hubert Robert – A View of Ripetta Maruyama Ōkyo – Crows Allan Ramsay – Portrait of David Hume Joshua Reynolds – Portrait of John Burgoyne Claude-Joseph Vernet – Coast Scene with a British Man of War Benjamin West – Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before Iphigenia Joseph Wright of Derby – A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery == Births == March 1 – Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling (died 1819) March 2 – Thomas Henry, French painter and art patron (died 1836) March 16 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, artist and explorer (died 1875) April 1 – François-Xavier Fabre, French painter of historical subjects (died 1837) April 6 – Wilhelm von Kobell, German painter, printmaker and teacher (died 1853) September 16 – Jes Bundsen, Danish architectural and landscape painter and etcher (died 1829) October 14 – Friedrich Carl Gröger, north-German portrait painter and lithographer (died 1838) December 22 – Johann Samuel Arnhold, German painter in oil and water-colours, and on porcelain and enamel (died 1827) December 25 – Samuel Drummond, British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (died 1844) date unknown Pierre-Charles Bridan, French sculptor (died 1836) Mariano Gerada, sculptor and woodworker (died 1823) == Deaths == January 7 – Giacomo Boni, Italian painter (born 1688) January 19 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni, French architect and painter (born 1695) March 4 – Joseph Aved, also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), French Rococo portraitist (born 1702) April 18 – Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (born 1703) May 5 – Olof Arenius, Swedish portrait painter (born 1701) June 22 – Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (born 1696) July 17 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the court of the Emperor (b. 1688) July 18 – Mauro Antonio Tesi, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna (b. 1730) August 13 – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English heiress and painter (b. 1726) November 7 Vincenzo Meucci, Italian painter whose patrons included Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (b. 1694) Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (b. 1685) date unknown Antonio Consetti, Italian historical painter (b. 1686) William Elliott, English engraver (born 1727) == References ==