1726 in art

Events

• A silver statue of the Annunciation is sculpted in Augsburg for Mariánská Týnice, on the order of Abbot Eugen Tittl; it was later melted down for coins, along with the rest of the church's treasures.

Paintings

• Elias Gottlob Haussmann – Gottfried Reiche
• Sebastiano Ricci
• * Moses make water gush from the rock
• * Susanna in front of Daniel
• Johann Heinrich Tischbein – ''Portrait of the Artist's first Wife, Marie Sophie Robert''

Births

• February 7 – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter
• March 24 – Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark
• April 18 – François-Thomas Germain, French silversmith
• May 1 – Antonio Zucchi, Italian painter of the Neoclassic period
• May 20
• * Francis Cotes, English painter
• * Gabriel François Doyen, French painter
• August 24 - Peter Cramer, Danish book illustrator, decorative and theatrical painter
• October 15 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France
• October 16 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter
• November 30 – Jacques Aliamet, French engraver date unknown
• * John Baker, English flower painter
• * Michel-Bruno Bellengé, French painter
• * Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style
• * François-Gaspard Teuné, French ébéniste probable
• * Giovanni Battista Brostoloni, Italian engraver
• * Odvardt Helmoldt von Lode, Danish painter and engraver

Deaths

• February 15 – Teodoro Ardemans, Spanish architect and painter
• February 18 – Jacques Carrey, French painter and draughtsman
• April 13 – Antonio Palomino, Spanish painter, writer on art theory, and biographer of artists
• May 9 – Sébastien Slodtz, French sculptor
• August 13 – Anthoni Schoonjans, Belgian painter
• August 29 – Antonio Bellucci, painter from Treviso
• October 10 – Tommaso Redi, Italian painter, active in his native Florence
• November 15 – Giacomo del Po, Italian painter of emblematical and allegorical subjects
• November 22 – Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter born in Florence
• December 14 – François Dumont, French sculptor date unknown
• * François Barois, French sculptor
• * Jiao Bingzhen, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty
• * Gregorio De Ferrari, Italian painter of the Genoese school
• * Girolamo Gatti, Italian painter
• * Pier Lorenzo Spoleti, Italian painter of portraits and reproductions of old masters