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Events

Awards

Works

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Inspiration (Self-portrait), 1769, the Louvre, Paris

• Christopher Hewetson - Busts of Charles Townley and Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard - Self Portrait

Births

• April 3 - Josiah Wedgwood II, pottery owner, son of Josiah Wedgwood (d. 1843)
• April 13 - Sir Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter (d. 1830)
• March 19 - François Joseph Bosio, French sculptor (d. 1845)
• September 19 - George Raper, nature artist (d. 1797)
• October 23 - James Ward, painter, primarily of animals, and an engraver (d. 1859)
• December 23 - Sir Martin Archer Shee, British portrait painter (d. 1850)
• date unknown
  • Shin Wui, Korean painter in the literary artist's style of the late Joseon period (d. 1847)
  • Toyokuni, Japanese master of ukiyo-e, especially Kabuki actor prints (d. 1825)

Deaths

• August 17 - Giuseppe Bazzani, Italian painter of the Rococo (b. 1690)
• November 5 - Prince Hoare, English sculptor (b. 1711)
• date unknown
  • Giuseppe Grisoni, painter and sculptor (b. 1699)
  • Sim Sajeong, Korean genre works painter in the style of the Joseon period (b. 1707)
• probable - Hakuin Ekaku, Japanese Zen master, noted for his painting and calligraphy (b. 1685)