1711 in art

Events

• October 16 – Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts established in Brussels.
• Fresco of c.1480 by Melozzo da Forlì in Santi Apostoli, Rome, dismembered and distributed to other locations in the city.

Paintings

• Manuel Arellano paints the earliest prototypes of the casta genre works.
• Sir Godfrey Kneller paints Sir Christopher Wren.
• Sebastiano Ricci paints Esther before Ahasuerus and ''Moses saved from the waters''

Births

• January 28 – Johan Hörner, Swedish-Danish painter
• March 5 – Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-born artist and painter
• September 2 – Noël Hallé, French painter, draftsman and printmaker
• November 19 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian polymath, scientist and writer, and mosaic artist date unknown – Jacopo Marieschi, Italian vedute painter probable
• * Prince Hoare, English sculptor
• * Miguel Posadas, Spanish painter
• * Erik Westzynthius the Elder, Finnish painter
• * Giuseppe Zocchi, Italian veduta painter and printmaker

Deaths

• January 24 – Jean Bérain the Elder, French draughtsman and designer, painter and engraver
• May 14 – Juan Conchillos Falco, Spanish painter
• May 24 – John Closterman, Westphalian portrait painter
• June ? – Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist
• December 18 – Louis de Deyster, Flemish painter
• date unknown
• *Étienne Baudet, French engraver
• *Maria Vittoria Cassana, Italian painter of the late-Baroque
• *Francisco de Artiga, Spanish landscape and historical painter
• *Francisco Leonardoni, Italian painter active mainly in Spain
• *Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter, Polish painter and engraver
• *Domenico Maria Viani, Italian painter of churches, born in Bologna