1750 in art

Births

March 9 – Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (Leipziger Tischbein), German painter (died 1812)
June 5 – Claude-Jean-Baptiste Hoin, French portrait and landscape painter (died 1817)
July 21 – Daniel Caffé, German pastel painter of portraits (died 1850)
October 30 – Jan Bulthuis, Dutch draftsman and painter (died 1801)
December 6 – Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, French painter (died 1819)
December 8 – Giuseppe Cades, Italian sculptor, painter, and engraver (died 1799)
date unknown
- Luigi Agricola, Italian painter and jeweler (died 1821)
- John Boyne, British water-colour painter (died 1810)
- P. Jean-Baptiste Bradel, French draughtsman and engraver (died unknown)
- Manuel de la Cruz, Spanish painter (died 1792)
- John Downman, English portrait painter (died 1824)
- George Engleheart, English painter of portrait miniatures (died 1829)
- Ludwig Guttenbrunn, Austrian painter (died 1816)
- Francesco Pozzi, Italian engraver (died 1805)
- Samuel Shelley, English miniaturist and watercolour painter (died 1808)
- Stefano Tofanelli, Italian painter during the Neoclassic period (died 1810)
- François Marie Suzanne, French sculptor, who created a terracotta figure of Benjamin Franklin in 1793

March 7 – Cornelis Troost, Dutch painter (born 1697)
April - Guillaume Taraval, Swedish painter of French descent (born 1701)
April 29 – Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor (born 1692)
June 25 - Diego Francesco Carlone, Italian sculptor (born 1674)
July 31 – Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier, French goldsmith, sculptor, painter, architect, and furniture designer (born 1695)
August 12 – Rachel Ruysch, Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers (born 1664)
August 20 – Nishikawa Sukenobu, Japanese ukiyo-e printmaker from Kyoto (born 1671)
date unknown
- Francesco Boccaccino, Italian painter, born at Cremona (born 1680)
- Mattia Bortoloni, Italian Rococo painter (born 1696)
- Leonardo Coccorante, Italian painter especially of large, highly detailed landscapes with imaginary classical architectural ruins (born 1680)
- Antonio David, Italian portrait painter, especially of the House of Stuart (born 1698)
- Jan Griffier II, English painter (born 1688)
- Philipp Ferdinand de Hamilton, painter from the Southern Netherlands active in Austria (born 1664)
probable – Robert Griffier, Dutch landscape painter (born 1688)

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