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Events
Paintings
Births
- April 14: Firmin Didot - French printer, engraver, and type founder (d. 1836)
- Rudolph Ackermann - printer and lithographer (d. 1834)
- Charles Percier - architect and designer (d. 1838)
- Louis Baltard - architect and engraver (d. 1846)
- Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (d. 1850)
- Grigory Ugryumov - Russian painter (d. 1823)
- Barbara Krafft - Austrian painter (d. 1825)
- Qian Du - Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (d. 1844)
- Giacomo Guardi - Italian veduta painter (d. 1835)
Deaths
- May 3 - Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, engraver and art critic (b. 1712)
- Marco Benefial, Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome (b. 1684)
- Johanna Marie Fosie - Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (b. 1726)
- William Hogarth - English painter credited with pioneering western sequential art (b. 1697)
- John Wootton - English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes (b. 1682)
- Sebastiano Conca Italian painter (b. 1680)
- Okumura Masanobu - Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter (b. 1686)
