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Events from the year 1701 in art.

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Events

  • November – Philippe Bertrand becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
  • December 31 – Pierre Gobert becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
  • 13-year-old François Lemoyne becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
  • Peter Strudel becomes Reichsfreiherr and is appointed the director of the landscape academy in Vienna.
  • A sculptured life-size series on the Danse Macabre theme is moved to the old Neustädter Kirchhoff following a fire at the palace of Duke George in Dresden.

    • Paintings

  • Giuseppe Maria Crespi – The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret
  • Sir Godfrey Kneller – William III on Horseback
  • Sebastiano Ricci – Ascension (Santi Apostoli, Rome)
  • Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Louis XIV of the House of Bourbon, the Sun King

    • Publications

  • Gerard de Lairesse – Grondlegginge der teekenkonst

    • Births

  • April 28 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter (died 1780)
  • May 29 – Georg Friedrich Strass, Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones and the rhinestone (died 1773)
  • June 4 – Theodoor Verhaegen, sculptor from the Southern Netherlands (died 1759)
  • November 5 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (died 1785)
  • December 16 – Olof Arenius, Swedish portrait painter (died 1766)
  • December 21 – Guillaume Taraval, Swedish painter of French descent (died 1750)
  • date unknown
  • Jan George Freezen, German portrait painter (died 1775)
  • Thomas Hudson, English portrait painter (died 1779)
  • Matthew Pilkington, Irish art historian and satirist (died 1774)
  • José Romeo, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (died 1722)

    • Deaths

  • January 1 – Henri Gascar, French painter (born 1635)
  • March 28 – Domenico Guidi, sculptor (born 1625)
  • May 8 – Jacob de Heusch, painter (born 1656)
  • June 29 – Pieter Mulier II, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1637)
  • July 16 – Justus Danckerts, Dutch engraver (born 1635)
  • July 24 – John Bushnell, English sculptor (date of birth unknown)
  • date unknown – Jacob Gillig, Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, usually of fish, as well as portraits (born 1636)

    • References

    1701 in art Wikipedia
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