1703 in art

Births

• February 18 – Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (died 1765)
• September 29 – François Boucher, French Rococo painter, engraver and designer (died 1770)
• date unknown
• Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English sculptor (died 1781)
• Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (died 1778)
• Gaetano Sabatini, Italian draftsman and painter (died 1734)
• Andrea Soldi, Italian portrait painter working in London (died 1771)
• William Taverner, English judge and landscape artist (died 1772)

Deaths

• March 16 – Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter (born 1645)

• March 30 – Lazzaro Baldi, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome (born 1624)
• April 8 – Domenico Piola, Genoese painter (born 1627)
• May 3 – Eglon van der Neer, Dutch painter of portraits and landscapes (born 1634)
• July 26 – Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family (born 1640)
• October 13 – Marie Courtois, French miniature painter (born 1655)
• December 29 – Pierre Monier, French painter, winner of the Prix de Rome (born 1639)
• date unknown
• Sébastien Barras, French painter and engraver (born 1653)
• Mosen Vicente Bru, Spanish painter (born 1682)
• Biagio Falcieri, Italian painter of the Baroque era (born 1628)
• Giuseppe Nuvolone, Italian painter active mainly in Milan, Brescia, and Cremona (born 1619)
• Bogdan Saltanov, Armenian-born Russian painter (born 1630s)
• Jan Siberechts, Flemish painter (born 1627)
• Matthias Withoos, Dutch painter of still lifes and city scenes (born 1627)
• probable (or 1704) – Pompeo Ghitti, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1631)

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