Events from the year 1766 in art .
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Maruyama Ōkyo , Crows, 1766; pair of sixfold screens; ink and gold on paper.
Portrait of John Burgoyne by Joshua Reynolds
March 1 – Johann Conrad Felsing , German topographer and engraver using stippling (died 1819 )[2]
March 2 – Thomas Henry , French painter and art patron (died 1836 )
March 16 – Jean-Frédéric Waldeck , artist and explorer (died 1875 )
April 1 – François-Xavier Fabre , French painter of historical subjects (died 1837 )[3]
April 6 – Wilhelm von Kobell , German painter, printmaker and teacher (died 1853 )
September 16 – Jes Bundsen , Danish architectural and landscape painter and etcher (died 1829 )
October 14 – Friedrich Carl Gröger , north-German portrait painter and lithographer (died 1838 )
December 22 – Johann Samuel Arnhold , German painter in oil and water-colours, and on porcelain and enamel (died 1827 )
December 25 – Samuel Drummond , British painter especially portraits and marine genre works (died 1844 )
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Margaret Fownes-Luttrell
January 7 – Giacomo Boni , Italian painter (born 1688 )
January 19 – Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni , French architect and painter (born 1695 )[5]
March 4 – Joseph Aved , also called le Camelot (The Hawker) and Avet le Batave (The Dutch Avet), French Rococo portraitist (born 1702 )
May 5 – Olof Arenius , Swedish portrait painter (born 1701 )
June 22 – Carlo Zimech , Maltese priest and painter (born 1696 )[6]
July 17 – Giuseppe Castiglione , Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China , painter at the court of the Emperor (b. 1688 )[7]
July 18 – Mauro Antonio Tesi , Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna (b. 1730 )
August 13 – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell , English heiress and painter (b. 1726 )[8]
November 7
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Bryan, Michael (1886). "Felsing, Johann Konrad" . In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K) . Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 485.Schiavone, Michael J. (2009). Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. II G-Z . Pietà : Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. p. 1711. ISBN 9789993291329 .