1700 in art

Events from the year 1700 in art.

Events

 * Luca Giordano returns to Naples a wealthy man after the death of his patron, Charles II of Spain.
 * Pierre Le Gros the Younger is elected to the Accademia di San Luca.

Works

 * Richard Brakenburgh – A May Queen Festival
 * Pierre Gobert
 * Portrait of Abbé Fleury
 * Portrait of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Chartres
 * Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of Lady Mary Berkeley, wife of Thomas Chambers
 * Sebastiano Ricci
 * Frescoes and Saint Gregory the Great intercedes with the Madonna in chapel of Santissimo Sacramento in church of Abbey of Santa Giustina, Padua
 * Venus and Cupid (approximate date: 1549

Births

 * January 1 – Antonio Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter, also at Vienna Hofburg (died 1774)
 * January 8 – Augustyn Mirys, Polish painter (died 1790)
 * March 3 – Charles-Joseph Natoire, French painter (died 1777)
 * May 12 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian-born architect (died 1773)
 * August 18 – Lars Pinnerud, Norwegian farmer and woodcarver (died 1762)
 * September 25 – Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (died 1778)
 * October 10 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (died 1759)
 * date unknown
 * Bernard Baron, French engraver (died 1766)
 * Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish botanical illustrator and author (died 1758)
 * Francesco Caccianiga, Italian painter and engraver (died 1781)
 * Tommaso Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (died 1747)
 * Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, French historical painter and etcher (died 1785)
 * Antonio Joli, Italian painter of veduta (died 1777)
 * Krzysztof Perwanger, Polish sculptor and mayor (died 1785)
 * Felice Polanzani, Italian engraver (died 1771)
 * Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1780)
 * Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter (died 1753)
 * Antonio Rossi, Italian painter (died 1773)
 * Mattheus Verheyden, Dutch painter (died 1776)
 * Jacopo Zoboli, Italian etcher and painter of altarpieces and portraits (died 1765)
 * Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (died 1778)
 * probable – Giuseppe Peroni, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1776)

Deaths

 * March 4 – Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter in a Mannerist style of genre-like allegories (born 1629)
 * May 30 – Antoine Masson, French line engraver (born 1636)
 * July 2 – Lambert Doomer, Dutch painter (born 1624)
 * September 15 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (born 1613)
 * October 29 – Giovanni Giacomo Borni, Italian painter, active in Lombardy (born 1635)
 * November 7 – Pietro Santi Bartoli, painter and engraver (born 1635)
 * date unknown
 * Francisco Antolínez, Spanish historical and landscape painter (born 1644)
 * Pietro Bellotti, Italian painter (born 1625)
 * Agostino Bonisoli, Italian painter, active mainly in Cremona (born 1633)
 * Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor active in England (born 1630)
 * Ricardo do Pilar, Brazilian monk and painter (born 1635)
 * Matteo Ghidoni, Italian painter of burlesque genre paintings (date of birth unknown)
 * Agostino Lamma, Italian painter specializing in battle paintings (born 1636)
 * Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio, Spanish painter (born 1635)
 * Johannes Skraastad, Norwegian woodcarver (born 1648)
 * Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Danish sculptor and architect (born 1639)
 * Jacobus Storck, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1641)
 * Giovanni Maria Viani, Italian painter and etcher (born 1636)
 * Muhammad Zaman, Safavid calligrapher and painter (born unknown)
 * probable
 * Edmund Ashfield, English portrait painter and miniaturist (born unknown)
 * Giulio Giacinto Avellino, Italian painter (born 1645)
 * Bernardo Polo, Spanish painter depicting still-life paintings of fruit and flowers (born unknown)