1739 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1739, art Events from the year 1739 in art. Events * Royal sculptor Edme Bouchardon is commissioned to design the Fontaine des Quatre-Saisons in Paris. Paintings * Francis Bindon – Portrait of Dean Jonathan Swift (for Chapter of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin) * François Boucher – ''The Breakfast'' * Joseph Parrocel – ''Saint Francis Regis Interceding for the Plague Victims'' * Antoine Pesne – Portrait of Frederick the Great as Crown Prince * Francesco Carlo Rusca – Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu * Paul Troger – '' Apotheosis of Charles VI as Apollo'' (fresco for Imperial staircase ceiling at Göttweig Abbey, Austria) Births * February 23 - Peter Adolf Hall, Swedish-French artist primarily of miniature paintings (died 1793) * ?August – Francis Towne, English water-colour painter (died 1816) * August 21 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver (died 1819) * October 3 – Valentine Green, engraver (died 1813) * ''da ...
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