1709 in art

Events from the year 1709 in art.

Events

 * The Baroque church of Santa María Magdalena, Seville, is completed.

Paintings

 * Paolo Baronni – Frescoes in the Basilica of St Denis.
 * Giuseppe Maria Crespi – The Flea.
 * Sir Godfrey Kneller Portraits of Admirals Sir John Jennings and Sir Stafford Fairborne.
 * Kanō Tsunenobu – Portrait of a Japanese official.

Births

 * March 22 – Giuseppe Zais, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutisti) (died 1784)
 * June 11 – Joachim Martin Falbe, German portrait painter (died 1782)
 * December 24 – Johann Evangelist Holzer, Austrian-German painter (died 1740)
 * date unknown
 * Giuseppe Angeli, Italian painter of the late-baroque active mainly in Venice (died 1798)
 * Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver (died 1761)
 * John Cheere, English sculptor (died 1787)
 * Johann Michael Feuchtmayer, German stucco sculptor and plasterer (died 1772)
 * Jean Girardet, French painter of portrait miniatures (died 1778)
 * Violante Beatrice Siries, Italian painter (died 1783)

Deaths

 * April 2 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Italian painter (born 1639)
 * April 5 – Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (born 1635)
 * August 31 – Andrea Pozzo, Italian Baroque architect, decorator, stage designer, painter, and art theoretician (born 1642)
 * September – Thomas Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (born 1661)
 * December 7 – Meindert Hobbema, Dutch landscape painter (born 1638)
 * date unknown
 * Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles, French engraver, painter, and collector (born 1650)
 * Geronimo de Bobadilla, Spanish painter (born 1630)
 * Antonio Franchi, Italian painter active mainly in Florence and Lucca (born 1638)
 * Bartolomeo Guidobono, Italian painter, active mainly in Northern Italy (born 1654)
 * Henry Gyles, English glass painter (born 1640)
 * Johan Teyler, Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver (born 1648)
 * Yu Zhiding, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1647)