1701 in art

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Events from the year 1701 in art.

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)