1701 in art

Events from the year 1701 in art.

Events

November – Philippe Bertrand becomes a member of the Académie de peinture [et de sculpture].
December 31 – Pierre Gobert becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
13-year-old François Lemoyne becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
Peter Strudel becomes Reichsfreiherr and is appointed the director of the landscape academy in Vienna.
A sculptured life-size series on the Danse Macabre theme is moved to the old Neustädter Kirchhoff following a fire at the palace of Duke George in Dresden.

Paintings

Giuseppe Maria Crespi – The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret
Sir Godfrey Kneller – William III on Horseback
Sebastiano Ricci – Ascension
Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Louis XIV of the House of Bourbon, the Sun King

Publications

Gerard de Lairesse – ''Grondlegginge der teekenkonst''

Births

April 28 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter
May 29 – Georg Friedrich Strass, Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones and the rhinestone
June 4 – Theodoor Verhaegen, sculptor from the Southern Netherlands
November 5 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter
December 16 – Olof Arenius, Swedish portrait painter
December 21 – Guillaume Taraval, Swedish painter of French descent date unknown
* Jan George Freezen, German portrait painter
* Thomas Hudson, English portrait painter
* Matthew Pilkington, Irish art historian and satirist
* José Romeo, Spanish painter of the Baroque period

Deaths

January 1 – Henri Gascar, French painter
March 28 – Domenico Guidi, sculptor
May 8 – Jacob de Heusch, painter
June 29 – Pieter Mulier II, Dutch Golden Age painter
July 16 – Justus Danckerts, Dutch engraver
July 24 – John Bushnell, English sculptor date unknown – Jacob Gillig, Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, usually of fish, as well as portraits