1768 in art

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Events

Joseph Wright, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768, National Gallery, London

March 10 - Domingos Sequeira, Portuguese painter (d. 1837)
April 18 - Jean-Baptiste Debret, French painter of lithographs depicting the people of Brazil (d. 1848)
July 27 - Joseph Anton Koch, Austrian painter of the German Romantic movement (d. 1839)
December 18 - Marie-Guillemine Benoist, French neoclassical, historical and genre painter (d. 1826)
December 22 - John Crome, English artist in the Romantic era (d. 1821)
date unknown
- Josef Abel, historical painter and etcher (d. 1818)
- Andrey Yefimovich Martynov, Russian painter and engraver (d. 1826)
- Charlotta Malm-Reuterholm, Finnish painter (d.1845)

April 10 - Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice (b. 1697)
April 14 - Francesco Monti - Italian painter frescoes (b. 1683)
June 11 - Stefano Pozzi - Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator (d. 1699/1707)
November 5 - Giorgio Duranti, Italian painter of still lifes (b. 1683)
December 8 - Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter (b. 1702)
date unknown
- Miguel Cabrera, indigenous Zapotec painter, (b. 1695)
- Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Italian painter and engraver from Florence (b. 1692)
- Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style (b. 1685)
- Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Italian, Rococo style painter from Florence (b. 1692)