1703 in art

Events

• May - The Cabin of Peter the Great is constructed in three days,^[1] by soldiers of the Semyonovskiy Regiment.^[2] Its wooden walls are painted with red oil to resemble brick, and the rooms come to be known as the "red chambers".
• Pierre Le Gros the Younger completes the tomb of Cardinal Girolamo Casanate in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Rome.

Paintings

• Adriaen van der Werff - Jesus Laid in the Tomb
• Louis Volders - Group portrait of the Leuven justices

Births

• February 18 - Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (died 1765)
• September 29 - François Boucher, French Rococo painter, engraver and designer (died 1770)
• date unknown
  • Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English sculptor (died 1781)
  • Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (died 1778)
  • Gaetano Sabatini, Italian draftsman and painter (died 1734)
  • Andrea Soldi, Italian portrait painter working in London (died 1771)
  • William Taverner, judge and landscape artist (died 1772)

Deaths

• April 8 - Domenico Piola, Genoese painter (born 1627)
• May 3 - Eglon van der Neer, Dutch painter of portraits and landscapes (born 1634)
• July 26 - Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family (born 1640)
• December 29 - Pierre Monier, French painter, winner of the Prix de Rome (born 1639)
• date unknown
  • Lazzaro Baldi, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome (born 1624)
  • Sébastien Barras, French painter and engraver (born 1653)
  • Mosen Vicente Bru, Spanish painter (born 1682)
  • Marie Courtois, French miniature painter (born 1655)
  • Biagio Falcieri, Italian painter of the Baroque era (born 1628)
  • Giuseppe Nuvolone, Italian painter active mainly in Milan, Brescia, and Cremona (born 1619)
  • Bogdan Saltanov, Armenian-born Russian painter (born 1630s)
  • Jan Siberechts, Flemish painter (born 1627)
  • Matthias Withoos, Dutch painter of still lifes and city scenes (born 1627)
• probable (or 1704) - Pompeo Ghitti, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1631)

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