1727 in art

Events from the year 1727 in art.

Events

 * Pierre Subleyras, a Provençal painter, wins the Prix de Rome at the age of 28.

Paintings

 * Canaletto
 * The Stonemason's Yard (Campo S. Vidal and Santa Maria della Carità, Venice) (approximate date)
 * Venice: S. Geremia and the Entrance to the Cannaregio (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
 * Balthasar Denner – Portrait of George Frideric Handel
 * Panagiotis Doxaras – Ceiling of Church of Saint Spyridon, Corfu
 * Charles Jervas – Portrait of Queen Caroline of Ansbach
 * Giovanni Battista Pittoni – Approximate date
 * Allegorical Tomb for Isaac Newton
 * Frescoes with scenes from the life of Diana, palazzetto Widman, Bagnoli di Sopra
 * Sebastiano Ricci
 * Agar in the desert
 * Ecstasy of St. Teresa
 * Jacob blesses the sons of Joseph
 * Moses saved from the waters
 * Rebecca and Eliazer at the well
 * Saint Gaetano heals the Sick
 * Sir James Thornhill – Painted Hall of Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich (1707–27)

Births

 * April 20 – Josef Jáchym Redelmayer, Czech painter, fresco painter and theater decorator (died 1788)
 * May 14 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (died 1788)
 * May 18/19 – Felix Ivo Leicher, Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works (died 1812)
 * August 30 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and printmaker in etching (died 1804)
 * December 14 – François-Hubert Drouais, French painter (died 1775)
 * date unknown
 * Don Manuel Alvarez, Spanish sculptor (died 1797)
 * Ivan Argunov, Russian painter (died 1802)
 * Pietro Campana, Spanish engraver (died 1765)
 * Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, Italian painter and a younger brother of Giacomo Casanova (died 1803)
 * Mason Chamberlin, English portrait painter (died 1787)
 * Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (died 1785)
 * William Elliott, English engraver (died 1766)
 * Jean-Claude Richard, French painter and engraver (died 1791)
 * Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver (died 1812)
 * probable
 * Antonio Baratta, Italian designer and engraver (death unknown)
 * George Hepplewhite, English furniture designer (died 1786)
 * Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (died 1760)

Deaths

 * January 5 - Giovanni Antonio Burrini, Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style (born 1656)
 * February 6 – Charles Boit, Swedish painter in vitreous enamels (born 1662)
 * April 29 – François Coudray, French sculptor (born 1678)
 * May 18 – Norbert Roettiers, Flemish engraver (born 1665)
 * August 27 – Aert de Gelder, Dutch artist in the tradition of Rembrandt (born 1645)
 * September 8 – Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1654)
 * October – Michiel Carree, Dutch painter (born 1657)
 * date unknown
 * Claude Duflos, French engraver (born 1665)
 * Alessio Erardi, Maltese painter (born 1669)
 * Pietro Erardi, Maltese chaplain and painter (born 1644)
 * Perpète Evrard, Flemish painter of portraits and miniatures (born 1662)
 * Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, art historian (born 1660)
 * Andrés Pérez, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1660)
 * Pablo González Velázquez, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1664)
 * Matthijs Wulfraet, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1648)
 * Jan van der Vaardt, Dutch painter of portraits, landscapes and trompe-l'œil (born 1650)