Events from the year 1724 in art.
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Events edit
- 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.[1]
Paintings edit
- Canaletto
- Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid)
- 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 (see image)
- Charles Jervas – Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk
- Sebastiano Ricci
- Bathsheba in her Bath
- Repudiation of Agar
- Solomon adores the idols
Births edit
- January 16 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter (died 1793)
- April 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (died 1780)
- June 7 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (died 1796)
- August 25 – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (died 1806)
- November 19 – Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1801)
- December 30 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (died 1805)
- date unknown
- Antonio Baratti, Italian engraver (died 1787)
- Antonio Beltrami, Italian painter active in the late-Baroque and Neoclassic periods (died 1784)
- Jonas Bergman, Finnish painter (died 1810)
- Henry Blundell, art collector (died 1810)
- Benjamin Calau, German portrait painter who used an encaustic technique (died 1783)
- Ignazio Collino, Italian sculptor (died 1793)
- Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style (died 1770)
- Gustaf Lucander, Finnish painter (died 1805)
Deaths edit
- January 12 – Felice Cignani, Italian painter from Bologna (born 1660), son of Carlo Cignani
- February 7 – Hanabusa Itchō, Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet (born 1652)
- February 23 – Lucas de Valdés, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1661)
- June 17 – Benedetto Luti, Italian painter of pastel portraits (born 1666)
- September 20 – David von Krafft, German-Swedish painter, nephew of David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and his successor at the Swedish Royal Court (born 1655)
- October 25 - José de Mora, Spanish sculptor (born 1642)
- November 11 – Jakob Bogdani, Slovak still-life painter (born 1660)
- date unknown
- Ferrante Amendola, Italian historical painter (born 1664)
- Philippe Bertrand, French sculptor (born 1663)
- Serafino Brizzi, Italian engraver of the Baroque period (born 1684)
- Sigismondo Caula, Italian painter (born 1637)
- Benoît Farjat, French engraver (born 1646)
- Pietro Paolo Raggi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of Bacchanal and landscape subjects (born 1646)
- Ezaias Terwesten, Dutch painter (born 1661)
- Franz Werner von Tamm, German-born, Italian painter (born 1658)
- Jan Pietersz Zomer, Dutch engraver, copyist, and art collector (born 1641)
References edit
- ^ Paulson, Ronald, 1998, Don Quixote in England: The Aesthetics of Laughter, Johns Hopkins University Press, ISBN 0-8018-5695-7, p. 45.