1731 in art

Events from the year 1731 in art.

Events

 * János Krucsay donates the Krucsay Altar to the Franciscan Church in Nyírbátor
 * Charles-Joseph Natoire receives his first commission from Philibert Orry.

Works

 * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – The White Tablecloth
 * William Hogarth – A Harlot's Progress (paintings - lost in fire, 1755)
 * Giovanni Paolo Panini – Interior of Saint Peter's
 * Francesco Maria Schiaffino – Crucifix with Angels
 * Andreas Silbermann – organ of the Saint-Maurice Church in Ebersmunster
 * Willem Van der Hagen – State Ball in Dublin Castle
 * Richard Waitt – The Cromartie Fool

Births

 * January 1 – Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois, French sculptor (died 1823)
 * February 10 – Thomas Beckwith, English painter, genealogist and antiquary (died 1786)
 * February 16 – Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian painter (died 1818)
 * May 18 – José Camarón Bonanat, Spanish painter, mainly active in Valencia (died 1803)
 * June 19 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (died 1822)
 * June 20 – Pierre Julien, French sculptor (died 1804)
 * July 1 – Johannes Wiedewelt, Danish neoclassical sculptor (died 1802)
 * date unknown
 * Dirk van der Aa, Dutch painter (died 1809)
 * Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French draughtsman and engraver (died 1809)
 * Per Floding, Swedish designer and engraver (died 1791)
 * John Inigo Richards, English landscape painter (died 1810)
 * Paul Sandby, map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours (died 1809)
 * Margareta Christina Giers, Swedish painter (died 1765)

Deaths

 * February 27 – Francis Bird, English sculptor (born 1667)
 * March 6 – Johann Melchior Dinglinger, one of Europe's greatest goldsmiths, German artist in a Mannerist tradition into the "Age of Rococo" (born 1664)
 * March 8 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Bohemian sculptor (born 1688)
 * April 18 - Giovanna Fratellini, Italian painter of small miniature portraits (born 1666)
 * June 6 – Giovanni Odazzi, Italian painter and etcher (born 1663)
 * June 7 – William Aikman, Scottish-born portrait painter (born 1682)
 * June 20 - Ned Ward, English writer and publican (born 1667)
 * date unknown
 * Christopher Elias Heiss, German painter and printmaker (born 1660)
 * Yedikuleli Seyyid 'Abdullah Efendi, Ottoman calligrapher (born unknown)
 * Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Italian painter of the Baroque era in Florence (born 1660)
 * probable – Bartolomeo Letterini, Italian painter from Venice (born 1669)