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Overview of the events of 1764 in art
Events
February - Joshua Reynolds co-founds The Club with writer Samuel Johnson.
Paintings
Francis Cotes – Portrait of the architect William Chambers (1764)
Births
- April 14 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder (died 1836)
- April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann, printer and lithographer (died 1834)
- May 11 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter (died 1823)
- May 20 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor (died 1850)
- July 9 – Louis-Pierre Baltard, architect and engraver (died 1846)
- July 12 - Charles Thévenin, neoclassical French painter, known for heroic scenes (died 1838)
- August 22 – Charles Percier, architect and designer (died 1838)
- date unknown – Giacomo Guardi, Italian veduta painter (died 1835)
- probable – Qian Du, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1844)
Deaths
- March 13 - Okumura Masanobu, Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter (born 1686)
- April 9 - Marco Benefial, Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome (born 1684)
- May 3 – Francesco Algarotti, Italian philosopher, engraver and art critic (born 1712)
- July 20 – Peter van Bleeck, portrait painter and engraver (born 1697)
- August 23 - Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (born 1726)
- September 1 - Sebastiano Conca, Italian painter (born 1680)
- October 26 – William Hogarth, English painter credited with pioneering western sequential art (born 1697)
- November 13 - John Wootton, English painter of sporting subjects, battle scenes and landscapes (born 1682)
