1701 in art

Events from the year 1701 in art.

Events

 * November – Philippe Bertrand becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
 * December 31 – Pierre Gobert becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
 * 13-year-old François Lemoyne becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
 * Peter Strudel becomes Reichsfreiherr and is appointed the director of the landscape academy in Vienna.
 * A sculptured life-size series on the Danse Macabre theme is moved to the old Neustädter Kirchhoff following a fire at the palace of Duke George in Dresden.

Paintings

 * Giuseppe Maria Crespi – The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret
 * Sir Godfrey Kneller – William III on Horseback
 * Sebastiano Ricci – Ascension (Santi Apostoli, Rome)
 * Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Louis XIV of the House of Bourbon, the Sun King

Publications

 * Gerard de Lairesse – Grondlegginge der teekenkonst

Births

 * April 28 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter (died 1780)
 * May 29 – Georg Friedrich Strass, Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones and the rhinestone (died 1773)
 * June 4 – Theodoor Verhaegen, sculptor from the Southern Netherlands (died 1759)
 * November 5 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (died 1785)
 * December 16 – Olof Arenius, Swedish portrait painter (died 1766)
 * December 21 – Guillaume Taraval, Swedish painter of French descent (died 1750)
 * date unknown
 * Jan George Freezen, German portrait painter (died 1775)
 * Thomas Hudson, English portrait painter (died 1779)
 * Matthew Pilkington, Irish art historian and satirist (died 1774)
 * José Romeo, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (died 1722)

Deaths

 * January 1 – Henri Gascar, French painter (born 1635)
 * March 28 – Domenico Guidi, sculptor (born 1625)
 * May 8 – Jacob de Heusch, painter (born 1656)
 * June 29 – Pieter Mulier II, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1637)
 * July 16 – Justus Danckerts, Dutch engraver (born 1635)
 * July 24 – John Bushnell, English sculptor (date of birth unknown)
 * date unknown – Jacob Gillig, Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, usually of fish, as well as portraits (born 1636)