1727 in art

Events from the year 1727 in art.

Events

• Pierre Subleyras, a Provençal painter, wins the Prix de Rome at the age of 28.

Paintings

• Canaletto
• The Stonemason's Yard (Campo S. Vidal and Santa Maria della Carità, Venice) (approximate date)
• Venice: S. Geremia and the Entrance to the Cannaregio (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
• Balthasar Denner – Portrait of George Frideric Handel
• Panagiotis Doxaras – Ceiling of Church of Saint Spyridon, Corfu
• Charles Jervas –
• Giovanni Battista Pittoni – Approximate date
• Allegorical Tomb for Isaac Newton
• Frescoes with scenes from the life of Diana, palazzetto Widman, Bagnoli di Sopra
• Sebastiano Ricci
• Agar in the desert
• Ecstasy of St. Teresa
• Jacob blesses the sons of Joseph
• Moses saved from the waters
• Rebecca and Eliazer at the well
• Saint Gaetano heals the Sick
• Sir James Thornhill – Painted Hall of Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich (1707–27)

Births

• April 20 – Josef Jáchym Redelmayer, Czech painter, fresco painter and theater decorator (died 1788)
• May 14 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (died 1788)
• May 18/19 – Felix Ivo Leicher, Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works (died 1812)
• August 30 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and printmaker in etching (died 1804)
• December 14 – François-Hubert Drouais, French painter (died 1775)
• date unknown
• Don Manuel Alvarez, Spanish sculptor (died 1797)
• Ivan Argunov, Russian painter (died 1802)
• Pietro Campana, Spanish engraver (died 1765)
• Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, Italian painter and a younger brother of Giacomo Casanova (died 1803)
• Mason Chamberlin, English portrait painter (died 1787)
• Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (died 1785)
• William Elliott, English engraver (died 1766)
• Jean-Claude Richard, French painter and engraver (died 1791)
• Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver (died 1812)
• probable
• Antonio Baratta, Italian designer and engraver (death unknown)
• George Hepplewhite, English furniture designer (died 1786)
• Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (died 1760)

Deaths

• January 5 - Giovanni Antonio Burrini, Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style (born 1656)
• February 6 – Charles Boit, Swedish painter in vitreous enamels (born 1662)
• April 29 – François Coudray, French sculptor (born 1678)
• May 18 – Norbert Roettiers, Flemish engraver (born 1665)
• August 27 – Aert de Gelder, Dutch artist in the tradition of Rembrandt (born 1645)
• September 8 – Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1654)
• October – Michiel Carree, Dutch painter (born 1657)
• date unknown
• Claude Duflos, French engraver (born 1665)
• Alessio Erardi, Maltese painter (born 1669)
• Pietro Erardi, Maltese chaplain and painter (born 1644)
• Perpète Evrard, Flemish painter of portraits and miniatures (born 1662)
• Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, art historian (born 1660)
• Andrés Pérez, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1660)
• Pablo González Velázquez, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1664)
• Matthijs Wulfraet, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1648)
• Jan van der Vaardt, Dutch painter of portraits, landscapes and trompe-l'œil (born 1650)

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