1763 in art

Events

• In Venice
• * Canaletto and Francesco Zuccarelli are elected to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
• * Francesco Guardi begins painting the 12 Doge's Feasts series.

  Paintings

• John Singleton Copley – Portraits of James Warren and Mercy Otis Warren
• Francesco Guardi – :File:Francesco Guardi 053.jpg|Miracle of a Dominican Saint
• Matthäus Günther – Frescos in Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Marinus and St. Anianus, Rott am Inn
• George Stubbs
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• Benjamin West – Cymon and Iphigenia
• Johann Zoffany – Three sons of the Earl of Bute

  Births

• June 26 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes
• July 22 – Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker
• August 7 – Johann Jakob Biedermann, Swiss painter and etcher
• November 19 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, art critic
• November 25 – Jean Germain Drouais, French historical painter
• December 12 – Margareta Alströmer, Swedish painter and singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts
• date unknown
• * Pietro Bettelini, Italian engraver
• * Antoine-Denis Chaudet, French sculptor in the neoclassical style
• * Joseph-François Ducq, Flemish historical and portrait painter
• * Augustin Félix Fortin, French painter of landscapes, and of genre and historical subjects
• * Philippe Auguste Hennequin, French painter
• * Andrew Plimer, English miniaturist
• * Zacarías González Velázquez, Spanish painter
• * Andries Vermeulen, Dutch painter

  Deaths

• January 3 – Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor
• January 21 – Jean-François Oeben, cabinet-maker
• March 4 – Johan Hörner, Swedish-Danish painter
• April – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer, German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School
• April 18 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain modeller
• May 24 – Luis González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter
• September 24 – Hendrik Frans van Lint, landscape painter from the Southern Netherlands
• October – Anna Maria Garthwaite, English textile designer
• October 22 – Frans van Mieris jr., Dutch painter
• December 3 – Giuseppe Nogari, Venetian painter of the Rococo, where he painted mainly painted half-body portraits
• date unknown
• * Kim Du-ryang, Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period
• * Carlo Salis, Italian painter, born in Verona
• * Gervase Spencer, English miniaturist
• * Jan van Gool, Dutch painter and biographer
• probable – Cao Xueqin, Chinese writer, painter of cliffs and rocks, poet