1724 in art

Births

• January 16 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter (died 1793)
• April 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (died 1780)
• June 7 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (died 1796)
• August 25 – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (died 1806)
• November 19 – Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1801)
• December 30 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (died 1805)
• date unknown
• Antonio Baratti, Italian engraver (died 1787)
• Antonio Beltrami, Italian painter active in the late-Baroque and Neoclassic periods (died 1784)
• Jonas Bergman, Finnish painter (died 1810)
• Henry Blundell, art collector (died 1810)
• Benjamin Calau, German portrait painter who used an encaustic technique (died 1783)
• Ignazio Collino, Italian sculptor (died 1793)
• Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style (died 1770)
• Gustaf Lucander, Finnish painter (died 1805)

Deaths

• January 12 – Felice Cignani, Italian painter from Bologna (born 1660), son of Carlo Cignani
• February 7 – Hanabusa Itchō, Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet (born 1652)
• February 23 – Lucas de Valdés, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1661)
• June 17 – Benedetto Luti, Italian painter of pastel portraits (born 1666)
• September 20 – David von Krafft, German-Swedish painter, nephew of David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and his successor at the Swedish Royal Court (born 1655)
• October 25 - José de Mora, Spanish sculptor (born 1642)
• November 11 – Jakob Bogdani, Slovak still-life painter (born 1660)
• date unknown
• Ferrante Amendola, Italian historical painter (born 1664)
• Philippe Bertrand, French sculptor (born 1663)
• Serafino Brizzi, Italian engraver of the Baroque period (born 1684)
• Sigismondo Caula, Italian painter (born 1637)
• Benoît Farjat, French engraver (born 1646)
• Pietro Paolo Raggi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of Bacchanal and landscape subjects (born 1646)
• Ezaias Terwesten, Dutch painter (born 1661)
• Franz Werner von Tamm, German-born, Italian painter (born 1658)
• Jan Pietersz Zomer, Dutch engraver, copyist, and art collector (born 1641)

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