The year 1745 in art refers to events, works, and figures associated with the visual arts during that calendar year in the 18th century. It is a conventional "year in art" topic, covered in encyclopedic chronologies alongside companion entries for architecture, literature, music, and science.
Events
- Hieronimo Miani completed the decoration of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen.
- The French painter Pierre L'Enfant was admitted as an académicien to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris.
Works
- Andien de Clermont – ceiling decoration known as the Monkey Room, Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire, England.
- William Hogarth – Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin; David Garrick as Richard III.
- Allan Ramsay – the "lost portrait" of Charles Edward Stuart.
- Richard Wilson – The Cock Tavern at Cheam (Surrey).
Births
- February 2 – John Nichols, English printer and author (died 1826).
- March 5 – Christina Elisabeth Carowsky, Swedish portrait painter (died 1797).
- March 29 – John Russell, English portrait painter (died 1806).
- May 5 – Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish naval officer, painter, author, and neoclassical architect (died 1800).
- May 12 – Jens Juel, Danish portrait painter (died 1802).
- June 16 – Sigmund Freudenberger, Swiss painter (died 1801).
- June 26 – Nils Schillmark, Swedish-born painter active in Finland (died 1804).
- July 6 – Jean-Joseph Taillasson, French painter (died 1809).
- August 3 – Domenico Pozzi, Swiss painter (died 1796).
- October 6 – Franciszek Smuglewicz, Polish draughtsman and painter (died 1807).
- Date unknown – among others, Luigi Acquisti (Italian neoclassical sculptor, died 1823), Anne Forbes (Scottish portrait painter, died 1834), Gim Hongdo (Korean painter of the late Joseon period, died c. 1806), Yi In-mun (Korean court painter, died 1821), Uragami Gyokudō (Japanese painter, poet, and calligrapher, died 1820), and Francis Jukes (English etcher and engraver, died 1812).
Deaths
- February 23 – Joseph Effner, German architect and interior decorator (born 1687).
- May 28 – Jonathan Richardson, English portrait painter, writer on art, and collector (born 1667).
- June 13 – Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (born 1678).
- June 28 – Giovanni Maria delle Piane, court painter (born 1660).
- September 14 – Martino Altomonte, Italian fresco painter (born 1657).
- December 19 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Dutch painter (born 1684).
- Date unknown – Pietro Giovanni Abbati (Italian set designer, painter, and engraver, born 1683), Claude Du Bosc (French engraver, born 1682), Willem Van der Hagen (Dutch painter who settled in Ireland and is associated with the founding of an Irish school of landscape painting), and, probably, Johan Richter (painter of Venetian landscapes or vedute, born 1665).
Context
The year falls within the late Baroque and Rococo periods in European art, and also within the decade of the 1740s. Several works of the period take the Jacobite rising of 1745 as their subject, though the best-known paintings on that theme—such as David Morier's An Incident in the Rebellion of 1745 and John Everett Millais's An Idyll of 1745—were produced later, in the 18th and 19th centuries respectively. The chronological designation "1745 in art" is established in encyclopedic reference works, and no significant uncertainty attaches to its use as a descriptive category, although attributions and dating of individual works of this era are sometimes approximate.
