1707 in art
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Events from the year 1707 in art.
Events
- Antoine Coypel becomes professor and rector of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
- James Thornhill begins work on the Painted Hall of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich[1] (completed 1727), probably having concluded work at Chatsworth House.[1]

Paintings
- Michael Dahl â Portrait of Sir William Whetstone (probable date)
- Andrea Pozzo â Admittance of Hercules to Olympus (trompe-l'Åil painting on ceiling of Liechtenstein Garden Palace, Vienna)
- Francesco Solimena â Portrait of Charles III of Habsburg
- Dirk Valkenburg â A Plantation in Suriname
- Willem van de Velde the Younger â The Gust
Births
- January 11 â Giuseppe Bonito, Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period (died 1789)
- January 28 (bapt.) â John Baskerville, typographer and craftsman (died 1775)
- February 27 â Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter of portraits, church decorations, and castle depictions (died 1782)
- March 2 â Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (died 1771)
- May 21 â Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (died 1781)
- July 8 â Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French engraver (died 1783)
- September 30 â Pietro Rotari, Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces (died 1762)
- date unknown
- Joseph Badger, American portrait artist (died 1765)
- Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, French art critic and director of the official French policy in the arts (died 1781)
- William Hoare, English painter, noted for his pastels (died 1792)
- Sim Sa-jeong, Korean genre painter in the style of the Joseon period (died 1769)
- Maria Felice Tibaldi, Italian painter of portraits and historical subjects (died 1770)
Deaths
- February 16 â Hendrik Bary, Dutch engraver (born 1632)
- February 22 â Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta (born 1646)
- April 2 â Gerard Edelinck, Flemish copper-plate engraver (born 1649)
- April 6 â Willem van de Velde the Younger, Dutch marine painter (born 1633)
- June 15 â Antonio Verrio, Italian painter of murals, altarpieces, master gardener, active mainly in England (born c. 1636)
- October 1 â Pierre Le Ber, portrait painter from Montreal (born 1669)
- December 24 â Noël Coypel, French painter (born 1628)
- date unknown
- Bernard Lens I, Dutch painter and writer of religious treatises (born c. 1631)
- Alessandro Mari, Italian painter of capricci and symbolical representations (born 1650)