1723 in art

Events

• Following Sir Godfrey Kneller's death, the Irish-born Charles Jervas succeeds him as Principal Portrait Painter to King George I of Great Britain.
• Scottish-born painter William Aikman settles in London as a portraitist under the patronage of John Campbell, Duke of Argyll.^[1]
• Sculptor Mario Diamanti begins work on the monumental façade of St. Sebastian, Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily.

Paintings

• William Aikman – Portrait of Lady Anne Cochrane
• Canaletto – Architectural Capriccio (his first known signed and dated work)
• Thomas Gibson – Portrait of George Vertue
• Jean Ranc – The Family of Philip V
• Christian Friedrich Zincke – Catherine Edwin (miniature)

Births

• April 12 – Franz Anton Bustelli, porcelain modeller (died 1763)
• July 16 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter, specializing in portraits (died 1792)
• date unknown
  • Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss landscape painter and etcher (died 1786)
  • Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (died 1806)
  • Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter (died 1797)
  • Johann Karl Auerbach, Austrian painter (died 1786)
  • William Baillie, Irish engraver (died 1792)
  • Pierre-François Basan, French engraver (died 1797)
  • Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, French miniature painter and engraver (died 1769)
  • Maria Carowsky, Swedish artist (died 1793)
  • Giovanni Battista Chiappe, Italian painter (died 1765)
  • Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter (died 1798)
  • Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher (died 1794)
  • Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (died 1760)
  • Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter (died 1778)
  • Ike no Taiga, Japanese painter and calligrapher (died 1776)
  • Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (died 1793)

Deaths

• October 19 – Sir Godfrey Kneller, English court painter (born 1646)
• December 6 – Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver (born 1688)
• date unknown
  • Bartolomeo Bimbi, Florentine painter of still lifes (born 1648)
  • Giacinto Garofalini, Italian painter (born 1661)
  • Alessandro Gherardini, Italian painter, active mainly in Florence (born 1655)
  • Maria Cattarina Locatelli, Italian painter from Bologna (born unknown)
  • Angelo Massarotti, Italian painter active in his native Cremona (born 1653)
  • Heinrich Meyring, German sculptor (born 1628)

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