1719 in art

Events

• Jean-Baptiste Oudry becomes a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.

Works

• Davies brothers of Wrexham – Chirk Castle gates
• Antoine Watteau – ''Pierrot''

Births

• February 6 – Alberto Pullicino, Maltese painter
• February 27 – Alejandro González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque architect and painter
• May 29 – Lorenzo De Caro, Neapolitan painter
• August 25 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter
• September 16 – Étienne Ficquet, French engraver
• October 13 – Josef Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter date unknown
• * Dominic Serres, French-born painter of naval maritime scenes
• * Angelica Le Gru Perotti, Italian painter of the Rococo
• * Liu Yong, Chinese politician and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty

Deaths

• May 3 – Pierre Le Gros the Younger, French sculptor, active in Baroque Rome
• May 7 – Sebastiano Bombelli, Italian Baroque painter, mainly in Venice
• July 22 – Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian landscape painter and engraver from Bologna
• August 8 – Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter
• September – Jan Weenix, Dutch painter
• September 6 – Carlo Cignani, Italian painter of the Bolognese school
• October 14 – Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht
• October 15 – Jan Mortel, Dutch painter
• November 2 – Georg Johann Mattarnovi, German sculptor and architect active in St Petersburg
• November 19 – Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors date unknown
• * Jan Baptist Brueghel, Flemish Baroque flower painter
• * José García Hidalgo, Spanish Baroque painter
• * Johann Ulrich Kraus, German illustrator, engraver and publisher
• * Arnold Frans Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter specialized in cabinet pictures of landscapes and battle scenes
• * Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli, Italian sculptor and gem-engraver of the late Baroque, active in Florence