1707 in art

Events

• Antoine Coypel becomes professor and rector of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
• James Thornhill begins work on the Painted Hall of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich, probably having concluded work at Chatsworth House.

Paintings

• Michael Dahl – Portrait of Sir William Whetstone
• Andrea Pozzo – Admittance of Hercules to Olympus
• Francesco Solimena – Portrait of Charles III of Habsburg
• Dirk Valkenburg – A Plantation in Suriname
• Willem van de Velde the Younger – ''The Gust''

Births

• January 11 – Giuseppe Bonito, Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period
• January 28 – John Baskerville, typographer and craftsman
• February 27 – Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter of portraits, church decorations, and castle depictions
• March 2 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter
• May 21 – Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor
• July 8 – Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French engraver
• September 30 – Pietro Rotari, Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces date unknown
• * Joseph Badger, American portrait artist
• * Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, French art critic and director of the official French policy in the arts
• * William Hoare, English painter, noted for his pastels
• * Sim Sa-jeong, Korean genre painter in the style of the Joseon period
• * Maria Felice Tibaldi, Italian painter of portraits and historical subjects

Deaths

• February 16 – Hendrik Bary, Dutch engraver
• February 22 – Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta
• April 2 – Gerard Edelinck, Flemish copper-plate engraver
• April 6 – Willem van de Velde the Younger, Dutch marine painter
• June 15 – Antonio Verrio, Italian painter of murals, altarpieces, master gardener, active mainly in England
• October 1 – Pierre Le Ber, portrait painter from Montreal
• December 24 – Noël Coypel, French painter date unknown
• * Bernard Lens I, Dutch painter and writer of religious treatises
• * Alessandro Mari, Italian painter of capricci and symbolical representations