1724 in art

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