1764 in art

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Events

Architecture

• September 6: King Louis XV. lays the foundation for the Panthéon in Paris. Architect of the building is largely unknown Jacques- Germain Soufflot. The works take until 1790.

Graphic arts

• William Hogarth completed before his death in the wake of the Seven Years' War, his last, born of pessimism work The tailpiece or The bathos.

Painting

• Angelica Kauffmann painted the portrait of Johann Joachim Winckelmann. The portrait, which shows the archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann, makes the painter with a blow known. The work should be inserted into the sequence and used in a large circulation. In the same year the portrait of David Garrick produced.

Exhibitions and Museums

• Empress Catherine II of Russia buys in Europe 250 paintings and thus justified the present Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

Teaching and research

• February 6: Prince Franz Xaver von Sachsen Leipzig is founded in an academy for painting, today as School of Visual Arts, one of the oldest public art schools in Germany.

• The College of Fine Arts Dresden is founded.
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann is the history of the art of antiquity out in two volumes.
• The Russian Academy of Arts was founded in 1757 by Ivan Ivanovich Shuvalov will be renamed in the order of Catherine II in Imperial Art Academy and is getting a new building, whose construction takes until 1789 to complete.

Born

• APRIL 14: Firmin Didot, French typographer and writer († 1836)
• April 20: Rudolph Ackermann, German - British bookseller, lithographer, publisher and entrepreneur († 1834)
• April 26: Joseph Ramee, a French architect, landscapers and interior decorators († 1842)

• August 22: Josef Abel, Austrian painter († 1818)
• August 22: Charles Percier, French architect and interior decorators († 1838)

• OCTOBER 5: Friedrich Christian Reinermann, German landscape painter and etcher († 1835)
• October 8: Hermann Mitterer, German teacher of drawing and lithographer († 1829)
• OCTOBER 19: Johann Christoph Rincklake, German painter († 1813)

• November 30: Abraham Girardet, Swiss engraver and draftsman († 1823)
• December 3: Friedrich Wilhelm Facius, German inventor, gem cutter, engraver and medalist († 1843)

Died

• MAY 3: Francesco Algarotti, Italian writer, art critic and art dealer (* 1712)
• MAY 16: Anton country, plasterer Bavarian Rococo (* 1712)

• JULY 20: Peter van Bleeck, Dutch portrait painter and engraver (* 1697 )
• August 2: Balthasar Riepp, Bavarian- Austrian painter (* 1703)
• August 7: Franz Christoph Nagel, German architect of Baroque ( * 1699)

• October 26: William Hogarth, British painter and engraver (* 1697 )

• Gabriel Steinböck, imperial court Stonemasons (* 1705)