1720 in art
Events from the year 1720 in art.
Events
- May 2 – James Thornhill, Serjeant Painter to King George I of Great Britain, is knighted, the first native English artist to be so honoured.
- John Michael Rysbrack settles in London.
- Portraitist Rosalba Carriera moves temporarily from Venice to Paris.
- The interior decoration of Santo Sepolcro (Pisa) is restored.
Works
- William Aikman – Portrait of the Duke of Argyll
- Rosalba Carriera – Maria Josepha of Austria
- Peter Scheemakers – Bust of John Dryden
- Antoine Watteau
- *The Judgement of Paris
- *''The shop sign of Gersaint''
Births
- January 19 – John Boydell, engraver
- January 20 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching
- August 15 – Charles Norbert Roettiers, French engraver and medallist
- October 4 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist
- November 30 – André Soares, Portuguese sculptor and architect
- date unknown
- *Pierre-Edmé Babel, French engraver
- *John Giles Eccardt, German-born English portrait painter
- *Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen, French painter and draftsman
- *Edme Dumont, French sculptor
- *Pietro Gaspari, Italian artist, known for veduta and capriccio in etchings and paintings
- *Carlo Magini, Italian painter of the Baroque period
- *Johannes Rach, Danish painter and draughtsman
- *Giuseppe Sanmartino, Italian sculptor during the Rococo period
- *Isak Wacklin, Finnish painter
- * Georg Caspar von Prenner, Austrian artist, son of Anton Joseph von Prenner, Austrian artist
- date probably
- *Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period
- *Jonas Haas, German-born Danish engraver
Deaths
- March 6 – Pieter van Bloemen, Flemish painter
- June 3 – Cristoforo Munari, Italian painter specializing in still life
- October 10 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor emigrated from Spain
- November 19 - Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors and a sculptor
- date unknown
- *Giovanni Agostino Cassana, Italian painter of animals and subject pictures
- *Orazio Marinali, Italian sculptor, active mainly in Veneto
- *Tao Chi, Chinese landscape painter
- *Adriaen van Salm, Dutch draftsman and painter
- probable
- *Alberto Carlieri, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period