1724 in art

Events from the year 1724 in art.

Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn by Jan van Huysum, 1724

Events

• Swiss artist Johann Caspar Füssli goes to Vienna to study painting.
• Charles-Antoine Coypel publishes his illustrations for Don Quixote in a deluxe folio in Paris.^[1]

Paintings

• Canaletto
  • Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)
  • Grand Canal, Looking Northeast from Palazo Balbi toward the Rialto Bridge
  • Piazza San Marco
  • Rio dei Mendicanti
• Jan van Huysum – Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn (see image)
• Charles Jervas – Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk
• Sebastiano Ricci
  • Bathsheba in her Bath
  • Repudiation of Agar
  • Solomon adores the idols

Births

• April 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (died 1780)
• June 7 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (died 1796)
• August 25 – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (died 1806)
• November 19 - Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1801)
• December 30 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, painter (died 1805)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Baratti, Italian engraver (died 1787)
  • Antonio Beltrami, Italian painter active in the late-Baroque and Neoclassic periods (died 1784)
  • Jonas Bergman, Finnish painter (died 1810)
  • Henry Blundell, art collector (died 1810)
  • Benjamin Calau, German portrait painter who used an encaustic technique (died 1783)
  • Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style (died 1770)
  • Gustaf Lucander, Finnish painter (died 1805)

Deaths

• January 12 – Felice Cignani, Italian painter from Bologna (born 1660), son of Carlo Cignani
• February 7 – Hanabusa Itchō, Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet (born 1652)
• February 23 – Lucas de Valdés, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1661)
• June 17 – Benedetto Luti, Italian painter of pastel portraits (born 1666)
• September 20 – David von Krafft, German-Swedish painter, nephew of David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and his successor at the Swedish Royal Court (born 1655)
• November 11 – Jakob Bogdani, Slovak still-life painter (born 1660)
• date unknown
  • Ferrante Amendola, Italian historical painter (born 1664)
  • Philippe Bertrand, French sculptor (born 1663)
  • Serafino Brizzi, Italian engraver of the Baroque period (born 1684)
  • Sigismondo Caula, Italian painter (born 1637)
  • Benoît Farjat, French engraver (born 1646)
  • Pietro Paolo Raggi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of Bacchanal and landscape subjects (born 1646)
  • Ezaias Terwesten, Dutch painter (born 1661)
  • Franz Werner von Tamm, German-born, Italian painter (born 1658)
  • Jan Pietersz Zomer, Dutch engraver, copyist, and art collector (born 1641)

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