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1706 in art

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1706 in art

Events from the year 1706 in art.

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Events

  • Engraver Sébastien Leclerc is granted the title of cavaliere Romano by the Pope.

    • Works

  • Jan Brokoff – Statue of St Joseph (on the Charles Bridge in Prague; later replaced)
  • Giovanni Battista Parodi – The Miracle of the Chains of Peter (ceiling fresco in San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome)

    • Births

  • January 3 – Johann Caspar Füssli, portrait painter (died 1782)
  • January 28 – John Baskerville, typographer and craftsman (died 1775)
  • February 12 – Johann Joseph Christian, German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver (died 1777)
  • February 26 – Jan Antonín Vocásek, Czech Baroque still-life painter (died 1757)
  • March 4 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect (died 1759)
  • March 12 – Johan Pasch, Swedish painter (died 1769)
  • March 23 – Anna Maria Barbara Abesch, Swiss reverse glass painter (died 1773)
  • April 30 – Philipp Jakob Straub, Austrian sculptor (died 1774)
  • June 15 – Johann Joachim Kändler, German modeller of Meissen porcelain in a rococo style (died 1775)
  • date unknown
  • Johan Backman, Finnish painter (died 1768)
  • George Bickham the Younger, English etcher, engraver, printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists (died 1771)
  • Christian Friedrich Boetius, German engraver (died 1782)
  • George Michael Moser, Swiss-born enameller (died 1783)
  • Simon François Ravenet, French engraver (died 1774)
  • Pieter Tanjé, engraver from the Northern Netherlands (died 1761)
  • Miguel Verdiguier, French sculptor (died 1796)

    • Deaths

  • January 10 – Luisa Roldán, Spanish sculptor (born 1652)
  • May 17 – Jean-Pierre Rivalz, French painter (born 1625)
  • August 10 – Lorenzo Vaccaro, Italian sculptor (born 1655)
  • August 26 – Michael Willmann, German painter (born 1630)
  • September 26 – Onofrio Gabrieli, Italian painter (born 1619)
  • November 16 – Gottfried Schalken, Dutch painter (born 1643)
  • date unknown
  • Ambrogio Besozzi, Italian painter (born 1648)
  • Ippolito Galantini, Italian painter and monk (born 1627)
  • Luo Mu, Chinese painter, poet and prose writer (born 1622)
  • Jacques Prou, French Academic sculptor (born 1655)
  • Thomas Regnaudin, French sculptor (born 1622)
  • Carlo Sacchi, Italian painter and engraver (born 1617)

    • References

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