1740 in art
# 1740 in art

Events from the year 1740 in art.

## Events

* October 13 – Jacques Saly arrives in Rome to study at the French Academy there.
* Susanna Drury exhibits gouache paintings of the Giant's Causeway in Ireland.

## Works

* Canaletto
   * A Regatta on the Grand Canal (National Gallery, London)
   * Venice: The Basin of San Marco on Ascension Day (National Gallery, London)
   * Venice: The Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
   * Venice: Santa Maria della Salute (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
* Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – The Morning Toilette
* Matthäus Günther – Fresco in church of SS. Peter and Paul, Mittenwald, Bavaria
* William Hogarth – Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram
* James Latham – The Rt Hon. Sir Capel Molyneux
* Michele Marieschi – The Grand Canal at the Palazzo Foscari
* Philippe Mercier – Portrait of John Hall-Stevenson
* Peter Scheemakers – Monument to William Shakespeare in Westminster Abbey (designed by William Kent)

## Births

* February 16 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer, type-designer, compositor, printer and publisher (died 1813)
* March 2 – Nicholas Pocock, English marine painter (died 1821)
* May 28 – Fedot Shubin, Russian sculptor (died 1805)
* September 7 – Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (died 1814)
* September 17 – John Hamilton Mortimer, British Neoclassical painter known primarily for his romantic paintings and Italian landscapes (died 1779)
* October 31 – Philip James de Loutherbourg, English miniaturist (died 1812)
* November 24 – John Bacon, British sculptor (died 1799)
* date unknown
   * Innocente Alessandri, Italian engraver, born in Venice (died unknown)
   * Margaret Bingham, British painter and writer (died 1814)
   * William Beilby, British glassworker and enameller (died 1819)
   * Claude André Deseine, French sculptor (died 1823)
   * Edmund Garvey, Irish painter (died 1813)
   * Charles-Étienne Gaucher, French engraver (died 1804)
   * Nathaniel Grogan Irish painter from Cork (died 1807)
   * William Marlow, English marine painter (died 1813)
   * Nikola Nešković, Serbian religious painter of icons, frescoes, and portraits (died 1789)
   * Mariano Ramon Sanchez, Spanish painter primarily of portrait miniatures (died 1822)
* probable
   * John Smart, English painter of portrait miniatures (died 1811)
   * Hugh Douglas Hamilton, Irish portrait artist (died 1808)
   * Vincenzio Vangelisti, Italian engraver (died 1798)
   * Antoine Vestier, French miniaturist and painter of portraits (died 1824)

## Deaths

* January 30 – Amalia Königsmarck, Swedish painter (born 1663)
* February 23 – Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Italian sculptor and medallist (born 1656)
* April 21 – Antonio Balestra, Italian Rococo painter (born 1666)
* May 18 – Giuseppe Palmieri , Italian painter (born 1674)
* June – Jan Frans van Bloemen, Flemish landscape painter (born 1662)
* July 16 – Jan Kupecký, Czech and Slovak portrait painter (born 1667)
* July 20 – Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli, Italian painter (born 1672)
* July 21 – Johann Evangelist Holzer, Austrian-German painter (born 1709)
* September 2 – Pietro Bianchi, Italian painter, active in Genoa and Rome (born 1694)
* November 22 – Georg Gsell, Swiss painter (born 1673)
* December 24 – Bernard Lens III, English artist known primarily for his portrait miniatures (born 1682)
* date unknown
   * Francesco Costa, Italian painter of ornaments and quadratura (born 1672)
   * Franz de Paula Ferg, Austrian landscape painter (born 1689)
   * Francesco Fernandi, Italian painter (born 1679)
   * Jean Joly, French sculptor (born 1650)
   * Antonio Lorenzini, Italian painter and engraver (born 1655)
   * Grigoriis Musikiysky, Russian painter (born 1670)
   * Giacomo Pavia, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Bologna (born 1655)
   * Giovanni Felice Ramelli, Italian miniaturist (born 1666)
   * Arcangelo Resani, Italian painter of animals and hunted game (born 1670)
   * Giuseppe Rivola, Italian painter (born unknown)
   * Jacob van Huysum, Dutch botanical artist (born 1687)
* probable – Guglielmo da Leoni, Italian painter and engraver (born 1664)
