•
March 9 –
François-Nicolas Delaistre, French sculptor (died
1832) •
March 22 –
Gerard van Spaendonck,
Dutch painter (died
1822) •
March 30 –
Francisco Goya,
Aragonese Spanish painter and
printmaker (died
1828) •
June 6 –
Francesco Saverio Mergalo, Italian portrait painter of the
Rococo or late-
Baroque period (died
1786) •
October 22 –
James Northcote, English painter (died
1831) •
November 11 –
Jean Guillaume Moitte, French sculptor (died
1810) •
December 30 –
François-André Vincent,
French painter (died
1816) •
date unknown •
Luis Paret y Alcázar,
Spanish painter of the late-
Baroque or
Rococo period (died
1799) •
Anthonie Andriessen, Dutch landscape painter (died
1813) •
William Ashford, British painter who worked exclusively in
Ireland (died
1824) •
Domenico Aspari, Italian painter and engraver (died
1831) •
Etienne Aubry, French painter of primarily portraits and genre subjects (died
1781) •
Ramón Bayeu, Spanish Neoclassicist painter (died
1793) •
John Bogle, Scottish miniature painter (died
1803) •
Joseph Boze, French portrait and miniature painter (died
1826) •
Teodor Ilić Češljar, one of the best late
Baroque and
Rococo Serbian painters from the region of
Vojvodina (died
1793) •
Balthasar Anton Dunker, German landscape painter and etcher (died
1807) •
Mauritius Lowe, British painter and engraver (died
1793) •
Xi Gang, renowned Chinese calligrapher and painter in
Qing Dynasty (died
1803) •
Philippe-Laurent Roland, French sculptor (died
1816) •
Michael Angelo Rooker, English oil and watercolour painter, illustrator and engraver (died
1801) •
Henry Walton, British painter and art dealer (died
1813) ==Deaths==