1723 in art

Events

• Following Sir Godfrey Kneller's death, the Irish-born Charles Jervas succeeds him as Principal Portrait Painter to King George I of Great Britain.
• Scottish-born painter William Aikman settles in London as a portraitist under the patronage of John Campbell, Duke of Argyll.
• Nishikawa Sukenobu publishes the set of prints One Hundred Women Classified According to their Rank in 2 volumes.
• Sculptor Mario Diamanti begins work on the monumental façade of St. Sebastian, Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily.

Paintings

• William Aikman – Portrait of Lady Anne Cochrane
• Canaletto – Architectural Capriccio
• Thomas Gibson – Portrait of George Vertue
• François Lemoyne – Perseus and Andromeda
• Jean Ranc – The Family of Philip V
• Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Cardinal Dubois
• Christian Friedrich Zincke – ''Catherine Edwin''

Births

• February 3 – Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter
• April 12 – Franz Anton Bustelli, Swiss-born Bavarian porcelain modeller
• May 6 – Ike no Taiga, Japanese painter and calligrapher
• July 2 - Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter
• July 16 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter, specializing in portraits
• October 17 – Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, French miniature painter and engraver
• October 23 - Pierre-François Basan, French engraver
• November 14 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss landscape painter and etcher
• date unknown
• *Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter
• *Johann Karl Auerbach, Austrian painter
• *William Baillie, Irish engraver
• *Maria Carowsky, Swedish artist
• *Giovanni Battista Chiappe, Italian painter
• *Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter
• *Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher
• *Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter
• *Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter

Deaths

• February 11 - Heinrich Meyring, German sculptor
• March – Lancelot Volders, Flemish painter
• October 19 – Sir Godfrey Kneller, English court painter
• December 6 – Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver
• date unknown
• *Giacinto Garofalini, Italian painter
• *Maria Cattarina Locatelli, Italian painter from Bologna
• *Angelo Massarotti, Italian painter active in his native Cremona