1764 in art
# 1764 in art

Events from the year 1764 in art.

## Events

* February - Joshua Reynolds co-founds The Club with writer Samuel Johnson.
* Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art") is published.

## Paintings

* Nicola Bertucci and Carlo Lodi – The Pleasures of Country Life (tempera paintings for Villa Sampiera, Bologna)
* Vigilius Eriksen – Catherine II Before the Mirror
* Joshua Reynolds – Miss Nelly O'Brien
* Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo – The Magic Lantern

## Births

* April 1 - Barbara Krafft, Austrian portrait painter (died 1825)
* April 13 – Giacomo Guardi, Italian veduta painter (died 1835)
* April 14 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder (died 1836)
* April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann, Saxon-born printer and lithographer (died 1834)
* April 30 – Luigi Ademollo, Italian painter (died 1849)
* May 11 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter (died 1823)
* May 20 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor (died 1850)
* July 9 – Louis-Pierre Baltard, architect and engraver (died 1846)
* July 12 – Charles Thévenin, neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes (died 1838)
* August 22 – Charles Percier, French architect and designer (died 1838)
* September 18 – Mauro Gandolfi, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School (died 1834)
* October 14 – Ferdinand Runk, German-Austrian landscape painter, draftsman and etcher (died 1834)
* October 19 - Johann Christoph Rincklake, German portrait painter (died 1813)
* Unknown
   * Jacques-Louis Copia, French engraver (died 1799)
   * Giovanni Folo, Italian engraver of the Neoclassic period (died 1836)
* Probable
   * Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1844)

## Deaths

* March 13 – Okumura Masanobu, Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter (born 1686)
* April 9 – Marco Benefial, Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome (born 1684)
* May 3 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, engraver and art critic (born 1712)
* July 20 – Peter van Bleeck, portrait painter and engraver (born 1697)
* August 23 – Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (born 1726)
* September 1 – Sebastiano Conca, Italian painter (born 1680)
* October 26 – William Hogarth, English painter credited with pioneering western sequential art (born 1697)
* November 13 – John Wootton, English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes (born 1682)
* Undated – Francesco Zucchi, Italian engraver (born 1692)
