1731 in art
Events from the year 1731 in art.
Events
- János Krucsay donates the Krucsay Altar to the Franciscan Church in Nyírbátor
- Charles-Joseph Natoire receives his first commission from Philibert Orry.
Works
Image:Hogarth-Harlot-6.png|thumb|300px|William Hogarth, Moll's Wake- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – The White Tablecloth
- William Hogarth – A Harlot's Progress
- Giovanni Paolo Panini – Interior of Saint Peter's
- Francesco Maria Schiaffino – Crucifix with Angels
- Andreas Silbermann – organ of the Saint-Maurice Church in Ebersmunster
- Willem Van der Hagen – State Ball in Dublin Castle
- Richard Waitt – ''The Cromartie Fool''
Births
- January 1 – Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois, French sculptor
- February 10 – Thomas Beckwith, English painter, genealogist and antiquary
- February 16 – Marcello Bacciarelli, Italian painter
- May 18 – José Camarón Bonanat, Spanish painter, mainly active in Valencia
- June 19 – Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor
- June 20 – Pierre Julien, French sculptor
- July 1 – Johannes Wiedewelt, Danish neoclassical sculptor date unknown
- * Dirk van der Aa, Dutch painter
- * Pierre-Philippe Choffard, French draughtsman and engraver
- * Per Floding, Swedish designer and engraver
- * John Inigo Richards, English landscape painter
- * Paul Sandby, map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours
- * Margareta Christina Giers, Swedish painter
Deaths
- February 27 – Francis Bird, English sculptor
- March 6 – Johann Melchior Dinglinger, one of Europe's greatest goldsmiths, German artist in a Mannerist tradition into the "Age of Rococo"
- March 8 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Bohemian sculptor
- April 18 - Giovanna Fratellini, Italian painter of small miniature portraits
- June 6 – Giovanni Odazzi, Italian painter and etcher
- June 7 – William Aikman, Scottish-born portrait painter
- June 20 - Ned Ward, English writer and publican
- date unknown
- *Christopher Elias Heiss, German painter and printmaker
- *Yedikuleli Seyyid 'Abdullah Efendi, Ottoman calligrapher
- *Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Italian painter of the Baroque era in Florence
- probable – Bartolomeo Letterini, Italian painter from Venice