1703 in art

Events

• May – The Cabin of Peter the Great is constructed in three days, by soldiers of the Semyonovsky Regiment. Its wooden walls are painted with red oil to resemble brick, and the rooms come to be known as the "red chambers".
• Pierre Le Gros the Younger completes the tomb of Cardinal Girolamo Casanate in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Rome.

Paintings

• Nicolas de Largillière – La belle Strasbourgeoise
• Sebastiano Ricci – Rape of the Sabine Women
• Adriaen van der Werff – Jesus Laid in the Tomb
• Lancelot Volders – Group portrait of the Leuven justices

Births

• February 18 – Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter
• September 29 – François Boucher, French Rococo painter, engraver and designer date unknown
• * Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English sculptor
• * Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter
• * Gaetano Sabatini, Italian draftsman and painter
• * Andrea Soldi, Italian portrait painter working in London
• * William Taverner, English judge and landscape artist

Deaths

• March 16 – Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter
• March 30 – Lazzaro Baldi, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome
• April 8 – Domenico Piola, Genoese painter
• May 3 – Eglon van der Neer, Dutch painter of portraits and landscapes
• July 26 – Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family
• October 13 – Marie Courtois, French miniature painter
• December 29 – Pierre Monier, French painter, winner of the Prix de Rome date unknown
• * Sébastien Barras, French painter and engraver
• * Mosen Vicente Bru, Spanish painter
• * Biagio Falcieri, Italian painter of the Baroque era
• * Giuseppe Nuvolone, Italian painter active mainly in Milan, Brescia, and Cremona
• * Bogdan Saltanov, Armenian-born Russian painter
• * Jan Siberechts, Flemish painter
• * Matthias Withoos, Dutch painter of still lifes and city scenes probable – Pompeo Ghitti, Italian painter of frescoes