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