title: 1768 in art
text: # 1768 in art
  
  Events from the year 1768 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * December 10 – Royal Academy founded in London, with Joshua Reynolds as its first President.
  * Tilly Kettle becomes the first English painter to work in India.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Thomas Gainsborough
     * Elizabeth and Thomas Linley (circa)
     * Ignatius Sancho
  * Sir Joshua Reynolds – Mrs Abington as the Comic Muse (approximate date)
  * Alexander Roslin – The Lady with the Veil (The Artist's Wife)
  * Jacques Saly – Frederik V on Horseback (bronze cast)
  * Benjamin West – General Johnson Saving a Wounded French Officer from the Tomahawk of a North American Indian
  * Joseph Wright of Derby – An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
  
  ## Births
  
  * March 2 – Benjamin Duterrau, English painter, etcher, engraver, sculptor and art lecturer (died 1851)
  * March 10 – Domingos Sequeira, Portuguese painter (died 1837)
  * March 19 – François Joseph Bosio, French sculptor (died 1845)
  * April 18 – Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter of lithographs depicting the people of Brazil (died 1848)
  * May 5 – Ezra Ames, American portrait painter (died 1836)
  * June 29 – Vincenzo Dimech, Maltese sculptor (died 1831)
  * July 10 – Hendrik Voogd, Dutch painter and printmaker, who was active in Italy (died 1839)
  * July 27 – Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement (died 1839)
  * August 22 – Josef Abel, historical painter and etcher (died 1818)
  * December 18 – Marie-Guillemine Benoist, French neoclassical, historical and genre painter (died 1826)
  * December 22 – John Crome, English artist in the Romantic era (died 1821)
  * date unknown
     * Pierre Audouin, French engraver (died 1822)
     * Juliane Wilhelmine Bause, German landscape etcher (died 1837)
     * Andrey Yefimovich Martynov, Russian painter and engraver (died 1826)
     * Charlotta Malm-Reuterholm, Finnish painter (died 1845)
     * Vasily Rodchev, Russian history painter (died 1803)
     * Peter Edward Stroehling, portrait artist from either Germany or the Russian Empire (died 1826)
     * Elkanah Tisdale, American engraver, miniature painter and cartoonist (died 1835)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 26 – Tibout Regters, Dutch portrait painter (born 1710)
  * April 10 – Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice (born 1697)
  * April 14 – Francesco Monti, Italian fresco painter (born 1683)
  * April 24 – Johann Valentin Tischbein, German theatre painter (born 1715)
  * April 29 – Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor (born 1698)
  * June 11 – Stefano Pozzi, Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator (died 1699/1707)
  * August 18 – Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Italian Rococo painter from Florence (born 1692)
  * August 24 – Isaac Basire, English engraver and head of family of engravers (born 1704)
  * November 5 – Giorgio Duranti, Italian painter of still lifes (born 1683)
  * December 8 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (born 1702)
  * date unknown
     * Johan Backman, Finnish painter (born 1706)
     * Antonio Baldi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1692)
     * Miguel Cabrera, indigenous Zapotec painter, (born 1695)
     * Samuel Collins, British miniature painter (born 1735)
     * Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Italian painter and engraver from Florence (born 1692)
     * Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style (born 1685)
  