1710 in art

Events

Paintings

• John James Baker – The Whig Junto
• Aert de Gelder – The Baptism of Christ
• Thomas Gibson – Portrait of Henry Sacheverell
• Godfrey Kneller
• * Portrait of Admiral George Delaval MP
• * Portrait of James Stanhope
• Antoine Pesne – Portrait of Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt
• Sebastiano Ricci
• * Assumption
• * Call of Saint Peter
• * Christ delivers the keys to Saint Peter
• * Liberation of Saint Peter
• John Verelst – Four Mohawk Kings

Births

• March 4 – Aert Schouman, Dutch painter, glass engraver and art dealer
• March 8 – Gaetano Majorano, Italian castrato and opera singer
• May 8 – Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, Flemish sculptor and architect
• May 23 – François Gaspard Adam, French rococo sculptor
• August 22 – Johann August Nahl, German sculptor and stucco artist
• August 27 – Giuseppe Vasi, Italian artist
• September 3 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist and zoological artist
• October 4 – Count Augustin Ehrensvärd, Swedish military architect and painter
• October 11 – Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, French sculptor in the neoclassical style
• December 15 – Francesco Zahra, Maltese painter date unknown
• * Pierre-Charles Canot, French engraver who spent most of his career in England
• * Francesco Foschi, Italian landscape painter
• * Yi Insang, Korean painter and government officer in the late Joseon period
• * José Luzán, Spanish Baroque painter
• * Michele Marieschi, Italian painter of landscapes or vistas
• * Tibout Regters, Dutch portrait painter
• * Jean Valade, French painter
• * Yi Insang, Korean painter of the later Joseon period probable
• * Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain, French engraver
• * Georg Franz Ebenhech, German sculptor
• * Marcos Zapata, Peruvian Quechua painter

Deaths

• January 30 – Madeleine Boullogne, French painter
• September 20 – Margherita Caffi, Italian woman painter of still life
• September 21 – Joseph Werner, Swiss miniaturist
• October 5 – John Baptist Medina, Flemish-Spanish portrait painter and illustrator of Paradise Lost date unknown
• * Germain Audran, French engraver
• * Giovanni Antonio Fumiani, Italian painter
• * Heinrich Charasky, Hungarian sculptor
• * Jacob Leyssens, Flemish painter and decorator from the Baroque
• * Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, Quechua painter from Cusco, Peru
• * Johann Gustav Stockenberg, Swedish sculptor and stonemason
• * Sebastiano Taricco, Italian painter
• * Anna Maria Thelott, Swedish engraver, illustrator, woodcut-artist, and miniaturist painter
• * Girolamo Troppa, Italian painter
• * Giovanni Francesco Venturini, Italian painter and engraver
• * Simon Pietersz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age painter
• * Giuseppe Zimbalo, Italian architect and sculptor
• * 1710/1715: Jean Cornu, French sculptor