1763 in art
# 1763 in art

Events from the year 1763 in art.

## Events

* In Venice
   * Canaletto and Francesco Zuccarelli are elected to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
   * Francesco Guardi begins painting the 12 Doge's Feasts series.

## Paintings

* François Boucher – The Judgement of Paris
* John Singleton Copley – Portraits of James Warren and Mercy Otis Warren
* Francesco Guardi – Miracle of a Dominican Saint (for San Pietro Martire (Murano))
* Matthäus Günther – Frescos in Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Marinus and St. Anianus, Rott am Inn
* George Stubbs (approximate date; Tate Britain)
   * Horse Frightened by Lion
   * Horse Devoured by a Lion
* Benjamin West – Cymon and Iphigenia (lost)
* Johann Zoffany – Three sons of the Earl of Bute
* Copley – James Warren
* Copley – Mercy Otis Warren

## Births

* June 26 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes (died 1804)
* July 22 – Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker (died 1840)
* August 7 – Johann Jakob Biedermann, Swiss painter and etcher (died 1830)
* November 19 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, art critic (died 1808)
* November 25 – Jean Germain Drouais, French historical painter (died 1788)
* December 12 – Margareta Alströmer, Swedish painter and singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (died 1816)
* date unknown
   * Pietro Bettelini, Italian engraver (died 1828)
   * Antoine-Denis Chaudet, French sculptor in the neoclassical style (died 1810)
   * Joseph-François Ducq, Flemish historical and portrait painter (died 1829)
   * Augustin Félix Fortin, French painter of landscapes, and of genre and historical subjects (died 1832)
   * Philippe Auguste Hennequin, French painter (died 1833)
   * Andrew Plimer, English miniaturist (died 1837)
   * Zacarías González Velázquez, Spanish painter (died 1834)
   * Andries Vermeulen, Dutch painter (died 1814)

## Deaths

* January 3 – Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (born 1668)
* January 21 – Jean-François Oeben, cabinet-maker (born 1721)
* March 4 – Johan Hörner, Swedish-Danish painter (born 1711)
* April – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer, German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School (born 1698)
* April 18 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain modeller (born 1723)
* May 24 – Luis González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (born 1715)
* September 24 – Hendrik Frans van Lint, landscape painter from the Southern Netherlands (born 1684)
* October – Anna Maria Garthwaite, English textile designer (born 1688)
* October 22 – Frans van Mieris jr., Dutch painter (born 1689)
* December 3 – Giuseppe Nogari, Venetian painter of the Rococo, where he painted mainly painted half-body portraits (born 1699)
* date unknown
   * Kim Du-ryang, Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period (born 1696)
   * Carlo Salis, Italian painter, born in Verona (born 1680)
   * Gervase Spencer, English miniaturist (born 1715)
   * Jan van Gool, Dutch painter and biographer (born 1685)
* probable – Cao Xueqin, Chinese writer, painter of cliffs and rocks, poet (born 1715)
