1723 in art

Events from the year 1723 in art.

Events

 * Following Sir Godfrey Kneller's death, the Irish-born Charles Jervas succeeds him as Principal Portrait Painter to King George I of Great Britain.
 * Scottish-born painter William Aikman settles in London as a portraitist under the patronage of John Campbell, Duke of Argyll.
 * Nishikawa Sukenobu publishes the set of prints One Hundred Women Classified According to their Rank (Hyakunin joro shina-sadame) in 2 volumes.
 * Sculptor Mario Diamanti begins work on the monumental façade of St. Sebastian, Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily.

Paintings

 * William Aikman – Portrait of Lady Anne Cochrane
 * Canaletto – Architectural Capriccio (his first known signed and dated work)
 * Thomas Gibson – Portrait of George Vertue
 * François Lemoyne – Perseus and Andromeda
 * Jean Ranc – The Family of Philip V
 * Christian Friedrich Zincke – Catherine Edwin (miniature)

Births

 * February 3 – Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter (died 1778)
 * April 12 – Franz Anton Bustelli, Swiss-born Bavarian porcelain modeller (died 1763)
 * May 6 – Ike no Taiga, Japanese painter and calligrapher (died 1776)
 * July 2 - Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (died 1806)
 * July 16 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter, specializing in portraits (died 1792)
 * October 17 – Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, French miniature painter and engraver (died 1769)
 * October 23 - Pierre-François Basan, French engraver (died 1797)
 * November 14 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss landscape painter and etcher (died 1786)
 * date unknown
 * Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter (died 1797)
 * Johann Karl Auerbach, Austrian painter (died 1786)
 * William Baillie, Irish engraver (died 1792)
 * Maria Carowsky, Swedish artist (died 1793)
 * Giovanni Battista Chiappe, Italian painter (died 1765)
 * Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter (died 1798)
 * Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher (died 1794)
 * Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (died 1760)
 * Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (died 1793)

Deaths

 * February 11 - Heinrich Meyring, German sculptor (born 1628)
 * March – Lancelot Volders, Flemish painter (buried in Brussels on 23 March; born 1636)
 * October 19 – Sir Godfrey Kneller, English court painter (born 1646)
 * December 6 – Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver (born 1688)
 * date unknown
 * Giacinto Garofalini, Italian painter (born 1661)
 * Maria Cattarina Locatelli, Italian painter from Bologna (born unknown)
 * Angelo Massarotti, Italian painter active in his native Cremona (born 1653)