Events from the year 1703 in art.
Events
Paintings
Births
- February 18 â Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (died 1765)
- September 29 â 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 30 â Lazzaro Baldi, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome (born 1624)
- April 8 â Domenico Piola, Genoese painter (born 1627)
- May 3 â Eglon van der Neer, Dutch painter of portraits and landscapes (born 1634)
- July 26 â Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family (born 1640)
- October 13 â Marie Courtois, French miniature painter (born 1655)
- December 29 â 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) â Pompeo Ghitti, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1631)
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