•
January 8 –
Anton von Maron,
Austrian painter active in
Rome (died
1808) •
January 18 –
Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter (died
1794) •
March 13 –
Johann Zoffany, German
neoclassical painter (died
1810) •
March 23 –
Josiah Spode,
English potter (died
1797) • May –
Franz Edmund Weirotter,
Austrian landscape painter (died
1771) •
May 21 –
Johanna Juliana Friederike Bacciarelli, German painter (died 1809 or later) •
May 22 –
Hubert Robert, French painter (died
1808) •
June 12 •
Alessandro Longhi,
Venetian portrait painter and
printmaker in
etching (died
1813) •
Maruyama Ōkyo, Japanese painter (died
1795) •
October 5 –
Louis Jean-Jacques Durameau, French painter and winner of the Grand
prix de Rome (died
1796) •
October 30 –
Sawrey Gilpin, English painter of animals (died
1807) •
date unknown •
Jean-Baptiste Claudot, French painter of landscapes, flowers and still-life (died
1805) •
Luo Ping, Chinese
Qing dynasty painter, one of the
Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (died
1799) •
Franciszek Pinck, Polish sculptor and
stucco artist (died
1798) •
Anna Brita Sergel, textile artist of the royal Swedish court (died
1819) ==Deaths==