1726 in art

Births

• February 7 – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (died 1766)
• March 24 – Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (died 1764)
• April 18 (baptised) – François-Thomas Germain, French silversmith (died 1791)
• May 1 – Antonio Zucchi, Italian painter of the Neoclassic period (died 1795)
• May 20
• Francis Cotes, English painter (died 1770)
• Gabriel François Doyen, French painter (died 1806)
• August 24 - Peter Cramer, Danish book illustrator, decorative and theatrical painter (died 1782)
• October 15 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (died 1778)
• October 16 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (died 1801)
• November 30 – Jacques Aliamet, French engraver (died 1788)
• date unknown
• John Baker, English flower painter (died 1771)
• Michel-Bruno Bellengé, French painter (died 1793)
• Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style (died 1792)
• François-Gaspard Teuné, French ébéniste (cabinet-maker) (died 1788)
• probable
• Giovanni Battista Brostoloni, Italian engraver (died unknown)
• Odvardt Helmoldt von Lode, Danish painter and engraver (died 1757)

Deaths

• February 15 – Teodoro Ardemans, Spanish architect and painter (born unknown)
• February 18 – Jacques Carrey, French painter and draughtsman (born 1649)
• April 13 – Antonio Palomino, Spanish painter, writer on art theory, and biographer of artists (born 1653)
• May 9 – Sébastien Slodtz, French sculptor (born 1655)
• August 13 – Anthoni Schoonjans, Belgian painter (born 1655)
• August 29 – Antonio Bellucci (or Antonijus Belutis), painter from Treviso (born 1654)
• October 10 – Tommaso Redi, Italian painter, active in his native Florence (born 1665)
• November 15 – Giacomo del Po, Italian painter of emblematical and allegorical subjects (born 1654)
• November 22 – Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter born in Florence (born 1652)
• December 14 – François Dumont, French sculptor (born 1688)
• date unknown
• François Barois, French sculptor (born 1656)
• Jiao Bingzhen, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty (born 1689)
• Gregorio De Ferrari, Italian painter of the Genoese school (born 1647)
• Girolamo Gatti, Italian painter (born 1682)
• Pier Lorenzo Spoleti, Italian painter of portraits and reproductions of old masters (born 1680)

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