1735 in art

Events from the year 1735 in art.

Events

• February 18 – The English ballad opera Flora goes down in recorded history as the first opera of any kind to be produced in North America (in Charleston, South Carolina).
• June 25 – In Great Britain, the Engraving Copyright Act ('Hogarth's Act') takes effect on being given royal assent, the first of a series of British copyright protection laws, to protect original engravings against unauthorized copies.^[1]
• William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress series of paintings are published as engraved prints in London.^[2]
• The Chandos Mausoleum is constructed for James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos in St Lawrence's Church, Whitchurch, north of London, decorated in a classical trompe-l'œil style by Gaetano Brunetti.^[3]
• Guillaume Coustou the Younger is awarded the Prix de Rome.^[4]

Paintings

Chardin – Boy with a Top

• Jacopo Amigoni
  • Caroline Wilhelmina of Brandenburg-Ansbach
  • Frederick, Prince of Wales
• Canaletto
  • The Bucintoro Returning to the Molo (1730–1735) (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England)
  • The Molo, Venice (approximate date) (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas)
  • A Regatta on the Grand Canal (1730–1735) (Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, England)
  • Venice: A Regatta on the Grand Canal (National Gallery, London)
  • View of the Piazzetta San Marco Looking South (approximate date) (Indianapolis Museum of Art)
• Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
  • Boy building a House of Cards (probable first version; Waddesdon Manor, England)
  • Boy with a Top
  • A Lady Taking Tea
• Charles-Joseph Natoire – Psyche and Proserpine^[5]
• Giovanni Battista Piazzetta – The Assumption of Mary (The Louvre)

Sculptures

Equestrian statue of William III, Glasgow

• Unknown sculptor - Equestrian statue of William III, Glasgow

Births

• January 18 – Jeremiah Meyer, German-born English miniaturist (died 1789)^[6][7]
• May – Dmitry Levitzky, Russian-Ukrainian portrait painter (died 1822)
• May 8 – Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English portrait painter and later a politician (died 1811)
• June 16 – Nicolas Bernard Lépicié, French painter (died 1784)
• July 10 – Ulrika Pasch, Swedish miniaturist (died 1796)
• October 17 – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger, member of the German Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists associated with the Wessobrunner School (died 1803)
• December 20 – Friedrich August Brand, Austrian painter and engraver of historical subjects and landscapes (died 1806)
• December 29 – Thomas Banks, sculptor (died 1805)
• date unknown
  • Dimitrije Bačević, Serbian icon painter and muralist(died 1770)
  • Samuel Collins, British miniature painter (died 1768)
  • Tilly Kettle, English portrait painter (died 1786)
  • Isoda Koryusai, Japanese printmaker and painter (died 1790)
  • Étienne de La Vallée Poussin, French history painter and creator of interior decorative schemes (died 1802)
  • James Tassie, Scottish engraver (died 1799)
  • Giovanni Volpato, Italian engraver, excavator, dealer in antiquities and manufacturer of biscuit porcelain figurines (died 1803)

Deaths

• January 21 – Abraham Rademaker, Dutch painter and printmaker (born 1677)
• March 4 – Antonio Beduzzi, Austrian-Italian theater engineer, painter, and architect (born 1675)^[8]
• July 1 – Jean Ranc, French portrait painter (born 1674)
• July 16 – Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, British historian, travel writer and artist (born 1670)
• December 11 – Antoine Rivalz, official painter to the town of Toulouse (born 1667)
• date unknown
  • Pompeo Aldrovandini, Italian painter (born 1677)
  • Antonio Dardani, Italian painter (born 1677)
  • Nunzio Ferraiuoli, Italian painter (born 1661)
  • Pârvu Mutul, Romanian muralist and church painter (born 1657)
  • Giacomo Antonio Ponsonelli, Italian Rococo sculptor (born 1654)