1724 in art
Events from the year 1724 in art.
Image:Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn.jpg|thumb|250px|right| Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn by Jan van Huysum, 1724
Events
- Swiss artist Johann Caspar Füssli goes to Vienna to study painting.
- Charles-Antoine Coypel publishes his illustrations for Don Quixote in a deluxe folio in Paris.
Paintings
- Canaletto
- * Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio
- * Grand Canal, Looking Northeast from Palazo Balbi toward the Rialto Bridge
- * Piazza San Marco
- * Rio dei Mendicanti
- Jan van Huysum – Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn
- Charles Jervas – Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk
- Sebastiano Ricci
- * Bathsheba in her Bath
- * Repudiation of Agar
- * ''Solomon adores the idols''
Births
- January 16 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter
- April 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter
- June 7 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter
- August 25 – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses
- November 19 – Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver
- December 30 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter date unknown
- * Antonio Baratti, Italian engraver
- * Antonio Beltrami, Italian painter active in the late-Baroque and Neoclassic periods
- * Jonas Bergman, Finnish painter
- * Henry Blundell, art collector
- * Benjamin Calau, German portrait painter who used an encaustic technique
- * Ignazio Collino, Italian sculptor
- * Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style
- * Gustaf Lucander, Finnish painter
Deaths
- January 12 – Felice Cignani, Italian painter from Bologna, son of Carlo Cignani
- February 7 – Hanabusa Itchō, Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet
- February 23 – Lucas de Valdés, Spanish painter and engraver
- June 17 – Benedetto Luti, Italian painter of pastel portraits
- September 20 – David von Krafft, German-Swedish painter, nephew of David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and his successor at the Swedish Royal Court
- October 25 - José de Mora, Spanish sculptor
- November 11 – Jakob Bogdani, Slovak still-life painter date unknown
- * Ferrante Amendola, Italian historical painter
- * Philippe Bertrand, French sculptor
- * Serafino Brizzi, Italian engraver of the Baroque period
- * Sigismondo Caula, Italian painter
- * Benoît Farjat, French engraver
- * Pietro Paolo Raggi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of Bacchanal and landscape subjects
- * Ezaias Terwesten, Dutch painter
- * Franz Werner von Tamm, German-born, Italian painter
- * Jan Pietersz Zomer, Dutch engraver, copyist, and art collector