1721 in art
Events from the year 1721 in art.
Events
- The Ascension Convent in Moscow is renovated by order of Tsar Peter I of Russia.
Paintings
- Antoine Watteau – ''Pilgrimage to Cythera''
Births
- January 17 – Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV
- August 10 – Dirk van der Burg, Dutch artist, landscape painter and watercolourist date unknown
- * Francesco Albotto, Italian painter
- * Jean Charles Baquoy, French engraver
- * Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver
- * Charles Grignion the Elder, British engraver and draughtsman
- * Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni, Italian portrait painter
Deaths
- April 20 – Louis Laguerre, French decorative painter working in England
- July 18 – Antoine Watteau, painter
- August 3 – Grinling Gibbons, English master wood carver
- September 3 - Benoît Audran the Elder, French engraver
- December 19 – Bonaventura Lamberti, Italian painter active mainly in Rome
- date unknown
- *Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter active in Genoa
- *Francesco Antonio Caneti, Italian miniature painter
- *Andrea dell'Asta, Italian painter
- *John Faber the Elder, Dutch portrait engraver active in London
- *Luigi Garzi, Italian painter
- *Giuseppe Ghezzi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome
- *Nicola Malinconico, Neapolitan painter
- *Jose Risueño, Spanish painter who helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery