1726 in art

Events from the year 1726 in art.

Events

A silver statue of the Annunciation is sculpted in Augsburg for MariÃ¡nskÃ¡ TÃ½nice, on the order of Abbot Eugen Tittl; it was later melted down for coins, along with the rest of the church's treasures.

Elias Gottlob Haussmann â Gottfried Reiche
Sebastiano Ricci
- Moses make water gush from the rock
- Susanna in front of Daniel
Johann Heinrich Tischbein â Portrait of the Artist's first Wife, Marie Sophie Robert

February 7 â Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (died 1766)^[1]
March 24 â Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (died 1764)
April 18 (baptised) â FranÃ§ois-Thomas Germain, French silversmith (died 1791)
May 1 â Antonio Zucchi, Italian painter of the Neoclassic period (died 1795)
May 20
- Francis Cotes, English painter (died 1770)
- Gabriel FranÃ§ois Doyen, French painter (died 1806)
August 24 - Peter Cramer, Danish book illustrator, decorative and theatrical painter (died 1782)
October 15 â FranÃ§oise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (died 1778)
October 16 â Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (died 1801)
November 30 â Jacques Aliamet, French engraver (died 1788)
date unknown
- John Baker, English flower painter (died 1771)
- Michel-Bruno BellengÃ©, French painter (died 1793)
- Katsukawa ShunshÅ, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style (died 1792)^[2]
- FranÃ§ois-Gaspard TeunÃ©, French Ã©bÃ©niste (cabinet-maker) (died 1788)
probable
- Giovanni Battista Brostoloni, Italian engraver (died unknown)
- Odvardt Helmoldt von Lode, Danish painter and engraver (died 1757)

February 15 â Teodoro Ardemans, Spanish architect and painter (born unknown)
February 18 â Jacques Carrey, French painter and draughtsman (born 1649)
April 13 â Antonio Palomino, Spanish painter, writer on art theory, and biographer of artists (born 1653)
August 13 â Anthoni Schoonjans, Belgian painter (born 1655)
August 29 â Antonio Bellucci (or Antonijus Belutis), painter from Treviso (born 1654)
October 10 â Tommaso Redi, Italian painter, active in his native Florence (born 1665)
November 15 â Giacomo del Po, Italian painter of emblematical and allegorical subjects (born 1654)
November 22 â Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter born in Florence (born 1652)
December 14 â FranÃ§ois Dumont, French sculptor (born 1688)
date unknown
- FranÃ§ois Barois, French sculptor (born 1656)
- Jiao Bingzhen, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty (born 1689)
- Gregorio De Ferrari, Italian painter of the Genoese school (born 1647)
- Girolamo Gatti, Italian painter (born 1682)
- Pier Lorenzo Spoleti, Italian painter of portraits and reproductions of old masters (born 1680)