1770 in art

• Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of twenty-six. ==Works==

– The Death of General Wolfe • Nathaniel Dance-Holland – Portrait of Robert Clive • Thomas Gainsborough – approximate date • The Blue Boy • Portrait of David Garrick • Portrait of Thomas Linley the Elder • Angelica Kauffman – Vortigern and Rowena • Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée – The Spartan Mother • Joshua Reynolds – Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers • Alexander Roslin • Portrait of the artist's wife (Marie-Suzanne Giroust) • Portrait of Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden • George Stubbs • A Horse Frightened by a Lion (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) • A Lion Attacking a Horse (Yale University Art Gallery) • Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo – The Immaculate Conception with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola (approximate date) • Benjamin West • The Death of General Wolfe • The Oath of Hannibal • Richard Wilson – On Hounslow Heath ==Births==

• January 13 – Anatole Devosge, French painter (died 1850) • February 12 – Jean-Jacques Karpff, French painter, designer and miniaturist (died 1829) • February 21 – Antonio Pasini, Italian painter and manuscript illuminator (died 1845) • March 12 – Karl August Senff, Baltic German painter, engraver and teacher (died 1838) • c. March 25 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (died 1843) • April 12 – George Clint, English portrait painter and engraver (died 1854) • April 18 – Ludwig Buchhorn, German painter and engraver (died 1856) • May 4 – François Gérard, Italian-born French painter (died 1837) • June 1 – Michael Sigismund Frank, glass painter (died 1847) • July 3 – Thomas Pardoe, English enameler noted for flower painting (died 1823) • October 18 – Thomas Phillips, English portrait and subject painter (died 1845) • November 15 – Louis Lafitte, French painter, designer, illustrator and muralist (died 1828) • November 19 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (died 1844) • November 30 – John Buckler, British draughtsman and engraver (died 1851) • date unknown • Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur (died 1812) • Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, French painter and miniaturist (died 1856) • Richard Duppa, English writer and a draughtsman (died 1831) • Julien-Joseph Ducorron, Belgian landscape painter (died 1848) • Johann Christian Eberlein, German painter (died 1815) • Johannes Jelgerhuis, painter and actor from the Northern Netherlands (died 1836) • Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, French painter (died 1826) • John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (died 1819) • Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, portraitist and museum director (died 1852) • 1765/1770: Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect and sculptor-decorator (died 1845) ==Deaths==

• January 2 – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German Rococo stuccoist and sculptor (born 1696) • January 8 – John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor (born 1694) • February 17 – Louis René Vialy, French painter (born 1680) • March 5 – Gaetano Chiaveri, Italian Baroque architect and master builder, most notable for his work as part of the second phase of the Dresden Baroque (born 1689) • March 23 – Martin van Meytens, Austrian portrait painter (born 1695) • March 27 • José Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor (born 1705) • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (born 1696) • May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (born 1703) • July 7 – Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style (born 1724) • July 16 – Francis Cotes, English painter (born 1726) • November 1 – Gaspare Traversi, Italian painter (born c.1722) • December 1 – Giambettino Cignaroli, Italian painter (born 1718) • December 24 – Pierre-Philippe Mignot, French sculptor (born 1715) • date unknown • Guillaume Philippe Benoist, French line engraver (born 1725) • Domenico Duprà, Italian rococo court painter (born 1689) • Isabel Jolís Oliver, Spanish printer and engraver (born 1682) • Giuseppe Pedretti, Italian painter of lunettes and altarpieces (born 1694) • Maria Felice Tibaldi, Italian painter (born 1707) • probable • Apollonio Domenichini, Italian painter of vedute, active in Venice, between 1740 and 1770 (born 1715) • Susanna Drury, Irish painter chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings (born 1698) • Dimitrije Bačević, Serbian icon painter and muralist (born 1735). ==References==