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Contents 1 Events 2 Paintings 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

Paintings

Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, The Silver Beaker, 1749

• Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin refines technique for reflected light on glass and silver, painting The Silver Beaker.

Births

• January 13 - Friedrich Müller, painter, narrator, lyricist and dramatist (died 1825)
• April 11 - Adelaide Labille-Guiard, French portrait painter (died 1803)
• August 28 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, novelist, dramatist, theorist, painter (d. 1832)
• James Peale - American painter, best known for his miniature and still-life paintings, and a younger brother of noted painter Charles Willson Peale (d. 1831)
• Joseph Strutt - English engraver and antiquary (d. 1802)
• Thomas Burke - Irish engraver and painter (died 1815)
• Thomas Daniell - landscape painter (d. 1840)
• Archibald Skirving - Scottish portrait painter (died 1819)
• Charles Nicolas Favart - French actor, playwright, and painter (d. 1806)

Deaths

• February 8 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (born 1682)
• Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena, Italian painter (born 1656)
• Peter Monamy - English marine painter (b. 1681)
• Donato Creti, Italian painter of the Rococo period, active mostly in Bologna (b. 1671)
• Gao Fenghan, Chinese painter (b. 1683)
• Michelangelo Cerruti - Italian fresco artist (b. 1663)
• Alessandro Magnasco - Italian Rococo painter of genre or landscape scenes (b. 1667)
• Aureliano Milani - Italian painter and teacher in Bologna (b. 1675)
• Pierre Subleyras - French painter, active during the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic period (b. 1699)