1721 in art

Events from the year 1721 in art.



Events

 * The Ascension Convent in Moscow is renovated by order of Tsar Peter I of Russia.

Paintings

 * Antoine Watteau – Pilgrimage to Cythera

Births

 * January 17 – Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV (died 1786)
 * August 10 – Dirk van der Burg, Dutch artist, landscape painter and watercolourist (died 1773)
 * date unknown
 * Francesco Albotto, Italian painter (died 1757)
 * Jean Charles Baquoy, French engraver (died 1777)
 * Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver (died 1797)
 * Charles Grignion the Elder, British engraver and draughtsman (died 1810)
 * Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni, Italian portrait painter (died 1782)

Deaths

 * April 20 – Louis Laguerre, French decorative painter working in England (born 1663)
 * July 18 – Antoine Watteau, painter (born 1684)
 * August 3 – Grinling Gibbons, English master wood carver (born 1648)
 * September 3 - Benoît Audran the Elder, French engraver (born 1661)
 * December 19 – Bonaventura Lamberti, Italian painter active mainly in Rome (born 1653)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter active in Genoa (born 1640)
 * Francesco Antonio Caneti, Italian miniature painter (born 1652)
 * Andrea dell'Asta, Italian painter (born 1673)
 * John Faber the Elder, Dutch portrait engraver active in London (born 1660)
 * Luigi Garzi, Italian painter (born 1638)
 * Giuseppe Ghezzi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome (born 1634)
 * Nicola Malinconico, Neapolitan painter (born 1663)
 * Jose Risueño, Spanish painter who helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery (born 1640)