1700 in art
Events from the year 1700 in art.
Events
- Luca Giordano returns to Naples a wealthy man after the death of his patron, Charles II of Spain.
- Pierre Le Gros the Younger is elected to the Accademia di San Luca.
Works
- Richard Brakenburgh – A May Queen Festival
- Pierre Gobert
- *Portrait of Abbé Fleury
- *Portrait of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Chartres
- Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of Lady Mary Berkeley, wife of Thomas Chambers
- Sebastiano Ricci
- *Frescoes and Saint Gregory the Great intercedes with the Madonna in chapel of Santissimo Sacramento in church of Abbey of Santa Giustina, Padua
- *Venus and Cupid (approximate date: 1549
Births
- January 1 – Antonio Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter, also at Vienna Hofburg
- January 8 – Augustyn Mirys, Polish painter
- March 3 – Charles-Joseph Natoire, French painter
- May 12 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian-born architect
- August 18 – Lars Pinnerud, Norwegian farmer and woodcarver
- September 25 – Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver
- October 10 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor date unknown
- * Bernard Baron, French engraver
- * Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish botanical illustrator and author
- * Francesco Caccianiga, Italian painter and engraver
- * Tommaso Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period
- * Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, French historical painter and etcher
- * Antonio Joli, Italian painter of veduta
- * Krzysztof Perwanger, Polish sculptor and mayor
- * Felice Polanzani, Italian engraver
- * Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver
- * Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter
- * Antonio Rossi, Italian painter
- * Mattheus Verheyden, Dutch painter
- * Jacopo Zoboli, Italian etcher and painter of altarpieces and portraits
- * Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver probable – Giuseppe Peroni, Italian painter of frescoes
Deaths
- March 4 – Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter in a Mannerist style of genre-like allegories
- May 30 – Antoine Masson, French line engraver
- July 2 – Lambert Doomer, Dutch painter
- September 15 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect
- October 29 – Giovanni Giacomo Borni, Italian painter, active in Lombardy
- November 7 – Pietro Santi Bartoli, painter and engraver
- date unknown
- *Francisco Antolínez, Spanish historical and landscape painter
- *Pietro Bellotti, Italian painter
- *Agostino Bonisoli, Italian painter, active mainly in Cremona
- *Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor active in England
- *Ricardo do Pilar, Brazilian monk and painter
- *Matteo Ghidoni, Italian painter of burlesque genre paintings
- *Agostino Lamma, Italian painter specializing in battle paintings
- *Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio, Spanish painter
- *Johannes Skraastad, Norwegian woodcarver
- *Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Danish sculptor and architect
- *Jacobus Storck, Dutch Golden Age painter
- *Giovanni Maria Viani, Italian painter and etcher
- *Muhammad Zaman, Safavid calligrapher and painter
- probable
- *Edmund Ashfield, English portrait painter and miniaturist
- *Giulio Giacinto Avellino, Italian painter
- *Bernardo Polo, Spanish painter depicting still-life paintings of fruit and flowers