1717 in art
Events from the year 1717 in art.
Events
- April 13 – Thomas Coke purchases a marble statue of Artemis/Diana dated to 190–200 AD, believed to be a copy of a mid 4th century BC Hellenistic original, for 900 crowns, making it the most expensive item he acquired for the art collections of Holkham Hall.
Paintings
- Charles Jervas – Portrait of Isaac Newton
- Jean-Marc Nattier – Portraits of Peter the Great and Catherine I of Russia
- Enoch Seeman – Portrait of Elihu Yale
- Antoine Watteau
- * The Embarkation for Cythera
- * ''Les plaisirs du bal''
Statues
Births
- February 14 – Jan Palthe, Dutch portrait painter
- February 17 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor
- April 23 – Pieter Barbiers, Dutch painter
- May 4 - Jean-Charles François, French engraver
- June 20 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor
- August 11 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect, designer, and painter
- December 4 – Norbert Grund, Czech painter of the Rococo style date unknown
- * Giuseppe Bottani, Italian painter active in the Baroque period
- * Alexander Cozens, British landscape-painter in water-colours and published teacher of painting
- * Robert Wood, British engraver, gentleman and politician
Deaths
- January 16 – Elias Brenner, Swedish painter and archeologist
- February 18 – Giovanni Maria Morandi, Italian painter of altarpieces
- April 5 – Jean Jouvenet, French painter
- April 8 - Antoine Benoist, French painter and sculptor
- May 7 – Bon Boullogne, French painter
- November 21 – Jean-Baptiste Santerre, French painter date unknown
- * Luigi Quaini, Italian painter of landscapes and architecture
- * Carlo Antonio Rambaldi, Italian painter of the Baroque period
- * Girolamo Ruggieri, Italian painter of landscapes and battle paintings
- * John Slezer, Dutch- or German-born military engineer and artist
- * Wang Hui, Chinese landscape painter, the best known of the Four Wangs