1720 in art

Events from the year 1720 in art.

Events

 * May 2 – James Thornhill, Serjeant Painter to King George I of Great Britain, is knighted, the first native English artist to be so honoured.
 * John Michael Rysbrack settles in London.
 * Portraitist Rosalba Carriera moves temporarily from Venice to Paris.
 * The interior decoration of Santo Sepolcro (Pisa) is restored.

Works

 * Rosalba Carriera – Maria Josepha of Austria
 * Peter Scheemakers – Bust of John Dryden (Westminster Abbey)
 * Antoine Watteau
 * The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
 * The shop sign of Gersaint

Births

 * January 19 – John Boydell, engraver (died 1804)
 * January 20 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching (died 1780)
 * August 15 – Charles Norbert Roettiers, French engraver and medallist (died 1772)
 * October 4 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (died 1778)
 * November 30 – André Soares, Portuguese sculptor and architect (died 1769)
 * date unknown
 * Pierre-Edmé Babel, French engraver (died 1775)
 * John Giles Eccardt, German-born English portrait painter (died 1779)
 * Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, French painter and draftsman (died 1778)
 * Edme Dumont, French sculptor (died 1775)
 * Pietro Gaspari, Italian artist, known for veduta and capriccio in etchings and paintings (died 1785)
 * Carlo Magini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1806)
 * Johannes Rach, Danish painter and draughtsman (died 1783)
 * Giuseppe Sanmartino, Italian sculptor during the Rococo period (died 1793)
 * Isak Wacklin, Finnish painter (died 1758)
 * Georg Caspar von Prenner, Austrian artist (died 1766), son of Anton Joseph von Prenner, Austrian artist (1683/98?–1761)
 * date probably
 * Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (died 1771)
 * Jonas Haas, German-born Danish engraver (died 1775)

Deaths

 * March 6 – Pieter van Bloemen, Flemish painter (born 1657)
 * June 3 – Cristoforo Munari, Italian painter specializing in still life (born 1667)
 * October 10 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor emigrated from Spain (born 1640)
 * November 19 - Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors and a sculptor (born 1659)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Agostino Cassana, Italian painter of animals and subject pictures (born 1658)
 * Orazio Marinali, Italian sculptor, active mainly in Veneto (born 1643)
 * Tao Chi, Chinese landscape painter (born 1641)
 * Adriaen van Salm, Dutch draftsman and painter (born 1660)
 * probable
 * Alberto Carlieri, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (born 1672)