1720 in art
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Events from the year 1720 in art.
Events
- May 2 â James Thornhill, Serjeant Painter to King George I of Great Britain, is knighted, the first native English artist to be so honoured.[1]
- John Michael Rysbrack settles in London.
- Portraitist Rosalba Carriera moves temporarily from Venice to Paris.
- The interior decoration of Santo Sepolcro (Pisa) is restored.
Works
- William Aikman â Portrait of the Duke of Argyll
- Rosalba Carriera â Maria Josepha of Austria
- Peter Scheemakers â Bust of John Dryden (Westminster Abbey)
- Antoine Watteau
- The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
- The shop sign of Gersaint
Births
- January 19 â John Boydell, engraver (died 1804)
- January 20 â Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching (died 1780)
- August 15 â Charles Norbert Roettiers, French engraver and medallist (died 1772)
- October 4 â Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (died 1778)
- November 30 â André Soares, Portuguese sculptor and architect (died 1769)
- date unknown
- Pierre-Edmé Babel, French engraver (died 1775)
- John Giles Eccardt, German-born English portrait painter (died 1779)
- Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, French painter and draftsman (died 1778)
- Edme Dumont, French sculptor (died 1775)
- Pietro Gaspari, Italian artist, known for veduta and capriccio in etchings and paintings (died 1785)
- Carlo Magini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1806)
- Johannes Rach, Danish painter and draughtsman (died 1783)
- Giuseppe Sanmartino, Italian sculptor during the Rococo period (died 1793)
- Isak Wacklin, Finnish painter (died 1758)
- Georg Caspar von Prenner, Austrian artist (died 1766), son of Anton Joseph von Prenner, Austrian artist (1683/98?â1761)
- date probably
- Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (died 1771)
- Jonas Haas, German-born Danish engraver (died 1775)
Deaths
- March 6 â Pieter van Bloemen, Flemish painter (born 1657)
- June 3 â Cristoforo Munari, Italian painter specializing in still life (born 1667)
- October 10 â Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor emigrated from Spain (born 1640)
- November 19 - Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors and a sculptor (born 1659)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Agostino Cassana, Italian painter of animals and subject pictures (born 1658)
- Orazio Marinali, Italian sculptor, active mainly in Veneto (born 1643)
- Tao Chi, Chinese landscape painter (born 1641)
- Adriaen van Salm, Dutch draftsman and painter (born 1660)
- probable
- Alberto Carlieri, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (born 1672)