1723 in art
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Events from the year 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]
- Nishikawa Sukenobu publishes the set of prints One Hundred Women Classified According to their Rank (Hyakunin joro shina-sadame) in 2 volumes.
- Sculptor Mario Diamanti begins work on the monumental façade of St. Sebastian, Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily.
Paintings
- William Aikman â Portrait of Lady Anne Cochrane
- Canaletto â Architectural Capriccio (his first known signed and dated work)
- Thomas Gibson â Portrait of George Vertue
- François Lemoyne â Perseus and Andromeda
- Jean Ranc â The Family of Philip V
- Hyacinthe Rigaud â Portrait of Cardinal Dubois
- Christian Friedrich Zincke â Catherine Edwin (miniature)
Births
- February 3 â Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter (died 1778)
- April 12 â Franz Anton Bustelli, Swiss-born Bavarian porcelain modeller (died 1763)
- May 6 â Ike no Taiga, Japanese painter and calligrapher (died 1776)
- July 2 - Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (died 1806)
- July 16 â Joshua Reynolds, English painter, specializing in portraits (died 1792)
- October 17 â Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, French miniature painter and engraver (died 1769)
- October 23 - Pierre-François Basan, French engraver (died 1797)
- November 14 â Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss landscape painter and etcher (died 1786)
- date unknown
- Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter (died 1797)
- Johann Karl Auerbach, Austrian painter (died 1786)
- William Baillie, Irish engraver (died 1792)
- 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)
- Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (died 1793)
Deaths
- February 11 - Heinrich Meyring, German sculptor (born 1628)
- March â Lancelot Volders, Flemish painter (buried in Brussels on 23 March; born 1636)[2]
- October 19 â Sir Godfrey Kneller, English court painter (born 1646)
- December 6 â Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver (born 1688)
- date unknown
- Giacinto Garofalini, Italian painter (born 1661)
- Maria Cattarina Locatelli, Italian painter from Bologna (born unknown)[3]
- Angelo Massarotti, Italian painter active in his native Cremona (born 1653)