1706 in art

Events from the year 1706 in art.

Events

Engraver Sébastien Leclerc is granted the title of cavaliere Romano by the Pope.

Works

Jan Brokoff – Statue of St Joseph
Giovanni Battista Parodi – ''The Miracle of the Chains of Peter''

Births

January 3 – Johann Caspar Füssli, portrait painter
January 17 – George Michael Moser, Swiss-born enameller
February 12 – Johann Joseph Christian, German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver
February 26 – Jan Antonín Vocásek, Czech Baroque still-life painter
March 4 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect
March 12 – Johan Pasch, Swedish painter
March 23 – Anna Maria Barbara Abesch, Swiss reverse glass painter
April 1 – Christian Friedrich Boetius, German engraver
April 30 – Philipp Jakob Straub, Austrian sculptor
June 15 – Johann Joachim Kändler, German modeller of Meissen porcelain in a rococo style
September 8 – Antoine de Favray, French portrait painter date unknown
* Sabina Auffenwerth, German potter
* Johan Backman, Finnish painter
* George Bickham the Younger, English etcher, engraver, printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists
* Simon François Ravenet, French engraver
* Pieter Tanjé, engraver from the Northern Netherlands
* Miguel Verdiguier, French sculptor

Deaths

January 10 – Luisa Roldán, Spanish sculptor
May 17 – Jean-Pierre Rivalz, French painter
July 3 – Thomas Regnaudin, French sculptor
August 10 – Lorenzo Vaccaro, Italian sculptor
August 26 – Michael Willmann, German painter
September 26 – Onofrio Gabrieli, Italian painter
November 16 – Gottfried Schalken, Dutch painter date unknown
* Ambrogio Besozzi, Italian painter
* Ippolito Galantini, Italian painter and monk
* Luo Mu, Chinese painter, poet and prose writer
* Jacques Prou, French Academic sculptor
* Carlo Sacchi, Italian painter and engraver