1768 in art

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Events from the year 1768 in art.

Events

December 10 – Royal Academy founded in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first President.^[1]
Tilly Kettle becomes the first English painter to work in India.

March 2 – Benjamin Duterrau, English painter, etcher, engraver, sculptor and art lecturer (died 1851)
March 10 – Domingos Sequeira, Portuguese painter (died 1837)
March 19 – François Joseph Bosio, French sculptor (died 1845)
April 18 – Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter of lithographs depicting the people of Brazil (died 1848)
May 5 – Ezra Ames, American portrait painter (died 1836)
June 29 – Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (died 1831)
July 10 – Hendrik Voogd, Dutch painter and printmaker, who was active in Italy (died 1839)
July 27 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement (died 1839)
August 22 – Josef Abel, historical painter and etcher (died 1818)
December 18 – Marie-Guillemine Benoist, French neoclassical, historical and genre painter (died 1826)
December 22 – John Crome, English artist in the Romantic era (died 1821)
date unknown
- Pierre Audouin, French engraver (died 1822)
- Juliane Wilhelmine Bause, German landscape etcher (died 1837)
- Andrey Yefimovich Martynov, Russian painter and engraver (died 1826)
- Charlotta Malm-Reuterholm, Finnish painter (died 1845)
- Vasily Rodchev, Russian history painter (died 1803)
- Peter Edward Stroehling, portrait artist from either Germany or the Russian Empire (died 1826)
- Elkanah Tisdale, American engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist (died 1835)

January 26 – Tibout Regters, Dutch portrait painter (born 1710)
April 10 – Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice (born 1697)
April 14 – Francesco Monti, Italian fresco painter (born 1683)
April 24 – Johann Valentin Tischbein, German theatre painter (born 1715)
April 29 – Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor (born 1698)
June 11 – Stefano Pozzi, Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator (died 1699/1707)
August 18 – Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Italian Rococo painter from Florence (born 1692)
August 24 – Isaac Basire, English engraver and head of family of engravers (born 1704)
November 5 – Giorgio Duranti, Italian painter of still lifes (born 1683)
December 8 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (born 1702)
date unknown
- Johan Backman, Finnish painter (born 1706)
- Antonio Baldi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1692)
- Miguel Cabrera, indigenous Zapotec painter, (born 1695)
- Samuel Collins, British miniature painter (born 1735)
- Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Italian painter and engraver from Florence (born 1692)
- Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style (born 1685)

^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ "Elizabeth and Thomas Linley".