Events from the year 1770 in art.

Events

• Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of twenty-six.^[1]

Works

• Thomas Gainsborough – approximate date
  • The Blue Boy
  • Thomas Linley
• Sir Joshua Reynolds – Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers
• Alexander Roslin
  • Portrait of the artist's wife (Marie-Suzanne Giroust)
  • Portrait of Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden
• George Stubbs
  • A Horse Frightened by a Lion (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
  • A Lion Attacking a Horse (Yale University Art Gallery)
• Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo – The Immaculate Conception with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola (approximate date)
• Benjamin West – The Death of General Wolfe

Births

• January 13 – Anatole Devosge, French painter (died 1850)
• February 12 – Jean-Jacques Karpff, French painter, designer and miniaturist (died 1829)
• February 21 – Antonio Pasini, Italian painter and manuscript illuminator (died 1845)
• March 12 – Karl August Senff, Baltic German painter, engraver and teacher (died 1838)
• c. March 25 – Alexander Carse, Scottish genre painter (died 1843)
• April 12 – George Clint, English portrait painter and engraver (died 1854)
• April 18 – Ludwig Buchhorn, German painter and engraver (died 1856)
• May 4 – François Gérard, Italian-born French painter (died 1837)
• June 1 – Michael Sigismund Frank, glass painter (died 1847)
• July 3 – Thomas Pardoe, English enameler noted for flower painting (died 1823)
• October 18 – Thomas Phillips, English portrait and subject painter (died 1845)
• November 15 – Louis Lafitte, French painter, designer, illustrator and muralist (died 1828)
• November 19 – Bertel Thorvaldsen, Danish sculptor (died 1844)
• November 30 – John Buckler, British draughtsman and engraver (died 1851)
• date unknown
  • Robert Cromek, English engraver, editor, art dealer and entrepreneur (died 1812)
  • Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Duchesne, French painter and miniaturist (died 1856)
  • Richard Duppa, English writer and a draughtsman (died 1831)
  • Julien-Joseph Ducorron, Belgian landscape painter (died 1848)
  • Johann Christian Eberlein, German painter (died 1815)
  • Johannes Jelgerhuis, painter and actor from the Northern Netherlands (died 1836)
  • Marie-Élisabeth Laville-Leroux, French painter (died 1826)
  • John Lewin, English-born Australian artist (died 1819)
  • Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin, portraitist and museum director (died 1852)
  • 1765/1770: Fryderyk Bauman, Polish architect and sculptor-decorator (died 1845)

Deaths

• January 2 – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German Rococo stuccoist and sculptor (born 1696)
• January 8 – John Michael Rysbrack, Flemish sculptor (born 1694)
• February 17 – Louis René Vialy, French painter (born 1680)
• March 5 – Gaetano Chiaveri, Italian Baroque architect and master builder, most notable for his work as part of the second phase of the Dresden Baroque (born 1689)
• March 23 – Martin van Meytens, Austrian portrait painter (born 1695)
• March 27
  • José Ramírez de Arellano, Spanish Baroque architect and sculptor (born 1705)
  • Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (born 1696)
• May 30 – François Boucher, French painter (born 1703)
• July 7 – Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style (born 1724)
• July 16 – Francis Cotes, English painter (born 1726)
• November 1 – Gaspare Traversi, Italian painter (born c.1722)
• December 1 – Giambettino Cignaroli, Italian painter (born 1718)
• December 24 – Pierre-Philippe Mignot, French sculptor (born 1715)
• date unknown
  • Guillaume Philippe Benoist, French line engraver (born 1725)
  • Domenico Duprà, Italian rococo court painter (born 1689)
  • Isabel Jolís Oliver, Spanish printer and engraver (born 1682)
  • Giuseppe Pedretti, Italian painter of lunettes and altarpieces (born 1694)
  • Maria Felice Tibaldi, Italian painter (born 1707)
• probable
  • Apollonio Domenichini, Italian painter of vedute, active in Venice, between 1740 and 1770 (born 1715)
  • Susanna Drury, Irish painter chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings (born 1698)
  • Dimitrije Bačević, Serbian icon painter and muralist (born 1735).