1712 in art
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Paintings
- Series The Seven SacramentsSacraments of the Catholic ChurchThe Sacraments of the Catholic Church are, the Roman Catholic Church teaches, "efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us. The visible rites by which the sacraments are celebrated signify and make present the graces proper...
by Giuseppe Maria Crespi.
Births
- February 19 - Arthur DevisArthur Devis (1712-1787)Arthur Devis was an English portrait painter, particularly known for the type of portrait now called a conversation piece.Arthur Devis was born in the city of Preston, Lancashire, the eldest son of Anthony Devis...
, English portraitPortraitthumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
painter, particularly known for his conversation pieceConversation pieceConversation piece is a term for an informal group portrait, especially those painted in Britain in the 18th century, beginning in the 1720s. They are distinguished by their portrayal of the group apparently engaged in genteel conversation or some activity, very often outdoors...
s and other such small portraits (d. 17871787 in art-Works:* Jacques-Louis David's painting Death of Socrates was completed.* Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's painting Marie Antoinette and Her Children was completed.*John Trumbull – Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec.-Births:...
) - October 5 – Francesco GuardiFrancesco GuardiFrancesco Lazzaro Guardi was a Venetian painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting....
, painter of vedutaVedutaA veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista....
(d. 17931793 in art-Works:* Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat.* François Marie Suzanne, a French sculptor, created a terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin .-Births:*January 15 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer...
) - October 30 - Christian Wilhelm Ernst DietrichChristian Wilhelm Ernst DietrichChristian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich was a German painter and art administrator. In his own works, he was adept at imitating many earlier artists, but never developed a style of his own.-Biography:...
, GermanGermanyGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painter (d. 17741774 in art-Births:* February 17 – Raphaelle Peale, considered the first professional American painter of still-life * September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, Romantic painter * Pierre-Narcisse Guérin – French painter...
) - December 11 – Francesco AlgarottiFrancesco AlgarottiCount Francesco Algarotti was an Italian philosopher and art critic.He also completed engravings.He was born in Venice to a rich merchant. He studied at Rome for a year, and then Bologna, he studied natural sciences and mathematics...
, Italian philosopher and art critic (d. 17641764 in art-Births:*April 14 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder *April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann, printer and lithographer *May 11 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter *May 20 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor...
) - date unknown - Toriyama SekienToriyama Sekienthumb|200px| was an 18th century scholar and ukiyo-e artist of Japanese folklore. He was the teacher of Utamaro and, before taking up printmaking, a painter of the Kanō school. Toriyama is most famous for his attempt to catalogue all species of yōkai in the Hyakki Yakō series.-References:...
, scholar and ukiyo-eUkiyo-e' is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints and paintings produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters...
artist of Japanese folkloreJapanese folkloreThe folklore of Japan is heavily influenced by both Shinto and Buddhism, the two primary religions in the country. It often involves humorous or bizarre characters and situations and also includes an assortment of supernatural beings, such as bodhisattva, kami , yōkai , yūrei ,...
(d. 17881788 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife*Francisco Goya - The Meadow of San Isidro*Francisco Goya - St. Francis of Borja Attending a Dying Man-Births:...
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Deaths
- September 12 – Jan van der HeydenJan van der HeydenJan van der Heyden was a Dutch Baroque-era painter, draughtsman, printmaker, a mennonite and inventor who significantly contributed to contemporary firefighting. He improved the fire hose in 1672, with his brother Nicolaes, who was a hydraulic engineer...
, Dutch painter (born 16371637 in art-Events:* Claude Lorrain produces a series of etchings of a display of fireworks in Rome.-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain – Seaport and Landscape with a Country Dance* Pieter de Grebber – Elisha refusing the gifts of Naaman-Births:...
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- Andrea CelestiAndrea CelestiAndrea Celesti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, working in Venice. His style gravitated over the years from a turgid and academic weightiness to a lighter, looser brushstroke.-Biography:...
, Venetian painter (born 16371637 in art-Events:* Claude Lorrain produces a series of etchings of a display of fireworks in Rome.-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain – Seaport and Landscape with a Country Dance* Pieter de Grebber – Elisha refusing the gifts of Naaman-Births:...
) - Michelangelo PalloniMichelangelo PalloniMichelangelo Palloni was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, who worked in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1674 onward....
, Italian painter (born 16371637 in art-Events:* Claude Lorrain produces a series of etchings of a display of fireworks in Rome.-Paintings:* Claude Lorrain – Seaport and Landscape with a Country Dance* Pieter de Grebber – Elisha refusing the gifts of Naaman-Births:...
) - Pietro DandiniPietro DandiniPietro Dandini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence. He was the son and pupil of the painter Vincenzo Dandini. Pietro's uncle, Cesare Dandini, was also a painter. Vincenzo's sons, Ottaviano and Vincenzo Dandini the younger also became painters. He is also called...
, Italian painter of the BaroqueBaroqueThe Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
period active in FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
(b. 16461646 in art-Births:*April 20 - Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta *August 8 - Godfrey Kneller, portrait painter in England *date unknown**Andrea Belvedere, Italian painter...
) - Giovanni Batista DraghiGiovanni Batista Draghi (painter)Giovanni Batista Draghi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Northern Italy.Draghi was a scholar of Domenico Piola, active in Parma and more in Piacenza, where he died. There are many pictures by him in Piacenza, and amongst them the Death of St. James in the church of...
, Italian painter of the BaroqueBaroqueThe Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
period (b. 16571657 in art-Paintings:* Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas, 1656–1657* Salomon van Ruysdael, View of Deventer Seen from the North-West-Births:*January - Peter van Bloemen, Dutch painter *May 8 – Martino Altomonte, Italian painter of frescoes...
) - Andrea LanzaniAndrea LanzaniAndrea Lanzani was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.-Biography:Born in Milan in 1641, Lanzani received an initial academic training as an apprentice in the workshop of Luigi Scaramuccia, where he met Andrea Pozzo, a marked influence on his early work...
, Italian painter for the HabsburgHabsburgThe House of Habsburg , also found as Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and...
court (b. 16451645 in art-Paintings:* approx. date - William Dobson - The Painter with Sir Charles Cottrell and another.* Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Apollo and Mercury .-Births:...
) - Francesco MontiFrancesco Monti (il Brescianino)Francesco Monti was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque periods, mainly active in his natal city of Brescia, as well as Parma....
, Italian painter of battle scenes (b. 16461646 in art-Births:*April 20 - Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta *August 8 - Godfrey Kneller, portrait painter in England *date unknown**Andrea Belvedere, Italian painter...
) - Johan TeylerJohan TeylerJohannes or Johan Teyler , was a Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver, mathematics teacher, and inventor of the color print.-Biography:...
, Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver (b. 16461646 in art-Births:*April 20 - Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta *August 8 - Godfrey Kneller, portrait painter in England *date unknown**Andrea Belvedere, Italian painter...
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- Andrea Celesti