1724 in art

Events from the year 1724 in art.



Events

 * Swiss artist Johann Caspar Füssli goes to Vienna to study painting.
 * Charles-Antoine Coypel publishes his illustrations for Don Quixote in a deluxe folio in Paris.

Paintings

 * Canaletto
 * Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)
 * Grand Canal, Looking Northeast from Palazo Balbi toward the Rialto Bridge
 * Piazza San Marco
 * Rio dei Mendicanti
 * Jan van Huysum – Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn (see image)
 * Charles Jervas – Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk
 * Sebastiano Ricci
 * Bathsheba in her Bath
 * Repudiation of Agar
 * Solomon adores the idols

Births

 * January 16 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter (died 1793)
 * April 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (died 1780)
 * June 7 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (died 1796)
 * August 25 – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (died 1806)
 * November 19 – Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1801)
 * December 30 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (died 1805)
 * date unknown
 * Antonio Baratti, Italian engraver (died 1787)
 * Antonio Beltrami, Italian painter active in the late-Baroque and Neoclassic periods (died 1784)
 * Jonas Bergman, Finnish painter (died 1810)
 * Henry Blundell, art collector (died 1810)
 * Benjamin Calau, German portrait painter who used an encaustic technique (died 1783)
 * Ignazio Collino, Italian sculptor (died 1793)
 * Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style (died 1770)
 * Gustaf Lucander, Finnish painter (died 1805)

Deaths

 * January 12 – Felice Cignani, Italian painter from Bologna (born 1660), son of Carlo Cignani
 * February 7 – Hanabusa Itchō, Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet (born 1652)
 * February 23 – Lucas de Valdés, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1661)
 * June 17 – Benedetto Luti, Italian painter of pastel portraits (born 1666)
 * September 20 – David von Krafft, German-Swedish painter, nephew of David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and his successor at the Swedish Royal Court (born 1655)
 * October 25 - José de Mora, Spanish sculptor (born 1642)
 * November 11 – Jakob Bogdani, Slovak still-life painter (born 1660)
 * date unknown
 * Ferrante Amendola, Italian historical painter (born 1664)
 * Philippe Bertrand, French sculptor (born 1663)
 * Serafino Brizzi, Italian engraver of the Baroque period (born 1684)
 * Sigismondo Caula, Italian painter (born 1637)
 * Benoît Farjat, French engraver (born 1646)
 * Pietro Paolo Raggi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of Bacchanal and landscape subjects (born 1646)
 * Ezaias Terwesten, Dutch painter (born 1661)
 * Franz Werner von Tamm, German-born, Italian painter (born 1658)
 * Jan Pietersz Zomer, Dutch engraver, copyist, and art collector (born 1641)