1714 in art
Events from the year 1714 in art.
Events
- Antoine Coypel becomes director of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
Paintings
- Charles Jervas – Portrait of Alexander Pope
- Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of Robert Harley as Lord High Treasurer
- Nicolas de Largilliere - Portrait of a lady as Pomona, traditionally identified as the Marquise de Parabère
- Johann Michael Rottmayr – ''Coronation of Our Lady''
Births
- January 21 – Anna Morandi Manzolini, Bolognese sculptor in wax
- January 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor
- March 6 – Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, French painter, drawer and administrator
- March 25 – Friedrich Christian Glume, German sculptor
- August 1 – Richard Wilson, landscape painter
- August 14 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter
- August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Descamps, French writer and painter of village scenes
- November – Pierre-François Brice, Belgian painter date unknown
- * Philippe Caffieri, French sculptor
- * Étienne Fessard, French engraver
- * Thomas Johnson, English wood carver and furniture maker
- * Robert Taylor, English stonemason, sculptor and architect
Deaths
- April 28 – Jean-Jacques Clérion, French sculptor
- May – Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor and architect in the Petrine Baroque style
- May 11 – Pierre Le Gros the Elder, French sculptor for the Versailles
- August 20 – Cristóbal de Villalpando, Mexican painter
- October 4 – Peter Strudel, Austrian sculptor and painter
- November 2 – Giuseppe Passeri, Italian painter, active in his native city of Rome
- December 15 – Giovanni Monevi, Italian painter date unknown
- * Niccolò Cassana, Venetian portrait painter working in London
- * Giovanni Battista Cimaroli, Italian painter of landscapes
- * Filippo Maria Galletti, Italian painter of religious works and a Theatine priest
- * Gennaro Greco, Italian, also known as "Il Mascacotta", veduta painter