1709 in art

Events

• The Baroque church of Santa María Magdalena, Seville, is completed.

Paintings

• Paolo Baronni – Frescoes in the Basilica of St Denis.
• Giuseppe Maria Crespi – The Flea.
• Sir Godfrey Kneller Portraits of Admirals Sir John Jennings and Sir Stafford Fairborne.
• Kanō Tsunenobu – Portrait of a Japanese official.

Births

• March 22 – Giuseppe Zais, Italian painter of landscapes
• June 11 – Joachim Martin Falbe, German portrait painter
• December 24 – Johann Evangelist Holzer, Austrian-German painter date unknown
• * Giuseppe Angeli, Italian painter of the late-baroque active mainly in Venice
• * Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver
• * John Cheere, English sculptor
• * Johann Michael Feuchtmayer, German stucco sculptor and plasterer
• * Jean Girardet, French painter of portrait miniatures
• * Violante Beatrice Siries, Italian painter

Deaths

• April 2 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Italian painter
• April 5 – Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat
• August 31 – Andrea Pozzo, Italian Baroque architect, decorator, stage designer, painter, and art theoretician
• September – Thomas Quellinus, Flemish sculptor
• December 7 – Meindert Hobbema, Dutch landscape painter date unknown
• * Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles, French engraver, painter, and collector
• * Geronimo de Bobadilla, Spanish painter
• * Antonio Franchi, Italian painter active mainly in Florence and Lucca
• * Bartolomeo Guidobono, Italian painter, active mainly in Northern Italy
• * Henry Gyles, English glass painter
• * Johan Teyler, Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver
• * Yu Zhiding, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty