1761 in art

• May 9 – Society of Artists of Great Britain's Exhibition of 1761 opens in Spring Gardens, London. Exhibitors include Gainsborough, Hogarth and Nollekens, and Stubbs shows a painting for the first time (A Stallion Called Romulus). • Salon of 1761 is held at the Louvre in Paris • Scottish-born artist Allan Ramsay appointed to succeed John Shackelton as Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III of Great Britain. ==Works==

by Anton Raphael Mengs • François-Hubert Drouais – The children of the comte de Bethune playing the guitar • Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Susannah "Suky" Trevelyan • William Hogarth – The Five Orders of Perriwigs as they were Worn at the Late Coronation Measured Architectonically (satirical engraving) • Anton Raphael Mengs • Parnassus (ceiling fresco for Villa Albani, Rome) • Portrait of Charles III of Spain • Joshua Reynolds • David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy • Georgiana, Countess Spencer, and Her Daughter • The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke (probable date) • Louis-François Roubiliac – Memorials to Handel and Lady Elizabeth Nightingale in Westminster Abbey • Richard Wilson • Syon House from Richmond Gardens • The Valley of the Dee, with Chester in the Distance ==Births==

(1761–1818) • January 24 – Johann Christian Reinhart, German painter and etcher (died 1847) • January 28 – Marguerite Gérard, French painter and etcher (died 1837) • March – John Laporte, English landscape painter and etcher (died 1839) • April 10 – Jacques-Edme Dumont, French sculptor (died 1844) • May 16 – John Opie, Cornish historical and portrait painter (died 1807) • June 29 – Jacques Kuyper, Dutch printmaker, painter, draftsman, watercolourist, etcher, musician, and composer (died 1808) • July 5 – Louis-Léopold Boilly, French painter (died 1845) • October 11 – Mather Brown, American-born portrait and historical painter (died 1831) • October 21 – Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe, French artist, map-maker and close strategic advisor of Napoleon (died 1824) • September 6 – Marie-Gabrielle Capet, French painter (died 1818) • November 4 – Bertrand Andrieu, French engraver and medalist (died 1822) • December 1 – Marie Tussaud, French-born wax modeller of the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (died 1850) • date unknown • Jan Frans Eliaerts, Flemish painter of animals, flowers and fruit (died 1848) • William Fowler, English artist (died 1832) • Charles Hayter, English painter (died 1835) • Sakai Hōitsu, Japanese painter of the Rinpa school (died 1828) • Zhang Yin, Chinese calligrapher and painter of Qing Dynasty (died 1829) • probable – Robert Fagan, Irish painter, diplomat and archaeologist (died 1816) ==Deaths==

• April 4 – Theodore Gardelle, painter and enameller (born 1722) (executed for murder) • April 30 – Jean Duvivier, French medallist (born 1687) • July 13 – Claes Lang, Finnish painter (born 1690) • July 16 – Jacob Fortling, German-Danish sculptor, architect and manufacturer (born 1711) • July 21 – Louis Galloche, French painter (born 1670) • August 18 – François Gaspard Adam, French rococo sculptor (born 1710) • September 7 – Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, German painter (born 1702) • December 10 – Johann Georg Platzer, Austrian painter of primarily historical and mythical scenes (born 1704) • date unknown • August Querfurt, Austrian painter (born 1696) • Mary Roberts, miniaturist • Pieter Tanjé, engraver from the Northern Netherlands (born 1706) • Ivan Vishnyakov, Russian painter (born 1699) ==References==