1721 in art

Events

Paintings

• Antoine Watteau – Pilgrimage to Cythera

Births

• January 17 – Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV (d. 1786)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Albotto, Italian painter (d. 1757)
  • Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver (d. 1797)

Deaths

• April 20 – Louis Laguerre, French decorative painter working in England (b. 1663)
• July 18 – Antoine Watteau, painter (born 1684)
• August 3 – Grinling Gibbons, English master wood carver (b. 1648)
• December 19 – Bonaventura Lamberti, Italian painter active mainly in Rome (b. 1653)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter active in Genoa (b. 1640)
  • Francesco Antonio Caneti, Italian miniature painter (b. 1652)
  • Andrea dell'Asta, Italian painter (b. 1673)
  • Luigi Garzi, Italian painter (b. 1638)
  • Giuseppe Ghezzi, Italian painter , active mainly in Rome (b. 1634)
  • Nicola Malinconico, Neapolitan painter (b. 1663)
• Jose Risueño – Spanish painter helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery (b. 1640)