1741 in art

• At the request of the new Empress Elizabeth of Russia, painter Ivan Nikitich Nikitin begins his journey back from exile in Tobolsk to Saint Petersburg but dies en route. • Charles-Joseph Natoire produces a series of cartoons for the Gobelins tapestries History of Mark Anthony. • A major collection of Old Master drawings and other material from the collection of Pierre Crozat (died 1740) is auctioned in Paris; the catalogue written by Pierre-Jean Mariette is the first modern descriptive sale catalogue. ==Works==

– La lezione di danza • William Hogarth – Portrait of Benjamin Hoadly • Pietro Longhi – La lezione di danza • Michele Marieschi – Magnificentiores Selectioresque Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus (engravings) • Martin van Meytens – Portrait of Francis I, Grand Duke of Tuscany ==Births==

• February 7 – Henry Fuseli, Swiss-born British painter, draughtsman, and writer on art (d. 1825) • March 1 - Johann Georg Edlinger, Austrian court painter (died 1819) • March 18 – Alexander Kucharsky, Polish portrait painter (died 1819) • March 20 – Jean-Antoine Houdon, French neoclassical sculptor (died 1828) • March 26 – Jean-Michel Moreau, French illustrator and engraver (died 1814) • April 15 – Charles Willson Peale, American painter, soldier and naturalist (died 1827) • October 11 – James Barry, Irish painter (died 1806) • October 30 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (died 1807) • November 18 - Carlo Antonio Porporati, Italian engraver and painter (died 1816) • date unknown • Eliphalet Chapin, American furniture designer (died 1807) • François-Anne David, French line-engraver (died 1824) • Cornelius Høyer, Danish miniature painter (died 1804) • Thomas Hickey, Irish painter of portraits and genre scenes (died 1824) • Wojciech Kucharski, Polish sculptor and mason (died 1819) • James Nixon, English miniature-painter (died 1812) • Mette Magrete Tvistman, Danish clockmaker (died 1827) • Johann Dallinger von Dalling, Austrian painter (died 1806) ==Deaths==

• February 15 - Georg Rafael Donner, Austrian sculptor (born 1693) • February 19 – Andrea Locatelli, Italian painter of landscapes (vedute) (born 1695) • March 8 - Étienne-Jehandier Desrochers, French engraver (born 1668) • April 17 – Onofrio Avellino, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1674) • May 16 – Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German painter and engraver who invented the system of three- and four-colour printing (born 1667) • June 6 – Giuseppe Maria Mazza, Bolognese sculptor of the Rococo period (born 1653) • July 8 – Pietro Paltronieri, Italian painter of quadratura (born 1673) • November – Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Venetian decorative and mural painter (born 1675) • date unknown • Giacomo Adolfi, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in and around Bergamo (born 1682) • Giovanni Antonio Capello, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Brescia (born 1669) • Pedro de Uceda, Spanish Baroque painter (born unknown) • Ivan Nikitich Nikitin, Russian painter of portraits and battle scenes (born 1690) • Alexey Zubov, Russian etcher (born 1682)