1763 in art

Events from the year 1763 in art.

Events

In Venice
- Canaletto and Francesco Zuccarelli are elected to the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
- Francesco Guardi begins painting the 12 Doge's Feasts series.

June 26 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes (died 1804)
July 22 – Johann Heinrich Ramberg, German painter and printmaker (died 1840)
August 7 – Johann Jakob Biedermann, Swiss painter and etcher (died 1830)
November 19 – Karl Ludwig Fernow, art critic (died 1808)
November 25 – Jean Germain Drouais, French historical painter (died 1788)
December 12 – Margareta Alströmer, Swedish painter and singer and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts (died 1816)
date unknown
- Pietro Bettelini, Italian engraver (died 1828)
- Antoine-Denis Chaudet, French sculptor in the neoclassical style (died 1810)
- Joseph-François Ducq, Flemish historical and portrait painter (died 1829)
- Augustin Félix Fortin, French painter of landscapes, and of genre and historical subjects (died 1832)
- Philippe Auguste Hennequin, French painter (died 1833)
- Andrew Plimer, English miniaturist (died 1837)
- Zacarías González Velázquez, Spanish painter (died 1834)
- Andries Vermeulen, Dutch painter (died 1814)

January 3 – Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (born 1668)
January 21 – Jean-François Oeben, cabinet-maker (born 1721)
March 4 – Johan Hörner, Swedish-Danish painter (born 1711)
April – Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer, German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School (born 1698)
April 18 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain modeller (born 1723)
May 24 – Luis González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (born 1715)
September 24 – Hendrik Frans van Lint, landscape painter from the Southern Netherlands (born 1684)
October – Anna Maria Garthwaite, English textile designer (born 1688)
October 22 – Frans van Mieris jr., Dutch painter (born 1689)
December 3 – Giuseppe Nogari, Venetian painter of the Rococo, where he painted mainly painted half-body portraits (born 1699)
date unknown
- Kim Du-ryang, Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period (born 1696)
- Carlo Salis, Italian painter, born in Verona (born 1680)
- Gervase Spencer, English miniaturist (born 1715)
- Jan van Gool, Dutch painter and biographer (born 1685)
probable – Cao Xueqin, Chinese writer, painter of cliffs and rocks, poet (born 1715)

^ Egerton, Judy (2007). George Stubbs, Painter: catalogue raisoné. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300125092.