1707 in art

Events

Paintings

Births

• March 2 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (d. 1771)
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  • William Hoare, English painter, noted for his pastels (d. 1792)
  • Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (d. 1781)
  • Giuseppe Bonito, Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period (d. 1789)
  • Sim Sajeong, Korean genre works painter in the literary artist's style of the Joseon period (d. 1769)
  • Pietro Rotari – Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces (d. 1762)
  • Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter of portraits, church decorations, and castle depictions (d. 1782)

Deaths

• February 22 - Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta (b. 1646)
• April 2 - Gerard Edelinck, Flemish copper-plate engraver (b. 1649)
• April 6 – Willem van de Velde the Younger (born 1633)
• Shitao Chinese artist (born 1642)
• Alessandro Mari – Italian painter of capricci and symbolical representations (b. 1650)
• Antonio Verrio – Italian painter of altarpieces, master gardener, active mainly in England (b. 1639)
• Noël Coypel – French painter (b. 1628)
• Pierre Le Ber – painter from Montreal, especially of portraits (b. 1669)