1727 in art
Events from the year 1727 in art.
Events
- Pierre Subleyras, a Provençal painter, wins the Prix de Rome at the age of 28.
Paintings
- Canaletto
- * The Stonemason's Yard
- * Venice: S. Geremia and the Entrance to the Cannaregio
- Balthasar Denner – Portrait of George Frideric Handel
- Panagiotis Doxaras – Ceiling of Church of Saint Spyridon, Corfu
- Charles Jervas – Portrait of Queen Caroline of Ansbach
- Giovanni Battista Pittoni – Approximate date
- * Allegorical Tomb for Isaac Newton
- * Frescoes with scenes from the life of Diana, palazzetto Widman, Bagnoli di Sopra
- Sebastiano Ricci
- * Agar in the desert
- * Ecstasy of St. Teresa
- * Jacob blesses the sons of Joseph
- * Moses saved from the waters
- * Rebecca and Eliazer at the well
- * Saint Gaetano heals the Sick
- Sir James Thornhill – Painted Hall of Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich
Births
- April 20 – Josef Jáchym Redelmayer, Czech painter, fresco painter and theater decorator
- May 14 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist
- May 18/19 – Felix Ivo Leicher, Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works
- August 30 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and printmaker in etching
- December 14 – François-Hubert Drouais, French painter date unknown
- * Don Manuel Alvarez, Spanish sculptor
- * Ivan Argunov, Russian painter
- * Pietro Campana, Spanish engraver
- * Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, Italian painter and a younger brother of Giacomo Casanova
- * Mason Chamberlin, English portrait painter
- * Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver
- * William Elliott, English engraver
- * Jean-Claude Richard, French painter and engraver
- * Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver probable
- * Antonio Baratta, Italian designer and engraver
- * George Hepplewhite, English furniture designer
- * Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits
Deaths
- January 5 - Giovanni Antonio Burrini, Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style
- February 6 – Charles Boit, Swedish painter in vitreous enamels
- April 29 – François Coudray, French sculptor
- May 18 – Norbert Roettiers, Flemish engraver
- August 27 – Aert de Gelder, Dutch artist in the tradition of Rembrandt
- September 8 – Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, Italian painter of frescoes
- October – Michiel Carree, Dutch painter date unknown
- * Claude Duflos, French engraver
- * Alessio Erardi, Maltese painter
- * Pietro Erardi, Maltese chaplain and painter
- * Perpète Evrard, Flemish painter of portraits and miniatures
- * Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, art historian
- * Andrés Pérez, Spanish Baroque painter
- * Pablo González Velázquez, Spanish Baroque painter
- * Matthijs Wulfraet, Dutch Golden Age painter
- * Jan van der Vaardt, Dutch painter of portraits, landscapes and trompe-l'œil