1701 in art

Overview of the events of 1701 in art

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Events from the year 1701 in art.

## Events

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* November – Philippe Bertrand becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
* December 31 – Pierre Gobert becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
* 13-year-old François Lemoyne becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
* Peter Strudel becomes Reichsfreiherr and is appointed the director of the landscape academy in Vienna.
* A sculptured life-size series on the Danse Macabre theme is moved to the old Neustädter Kirchhoff following a fire at the palace of Duke George in Dresden.

## Paintings

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* Giuseppe Maria Crespi – The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret
* Sir Godfrey Kneller – William III on Horseback
* Sebastiano Ricci – Ascension (Santi Apostoli, Rome)
* Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Louis XIV of the House of Bourbon, the Sun King

## Publications

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* Gerard de Lairesse – Grondlegginge der teekenkonst

## Births

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* April 28 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter (died 1780)
* May 29 – Georg Friedrich Strass, Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones and the rhinestone (died 1773)
* June 4 – Theodoor Verhaegen, sculptor from the Southern Netherlands (died 1759)
* November 5 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (died 1785)
* December 16 – Olof Arenius, Swedish portrait painter (died 1766)
* December 21 – Guillaume Taraval, Swedish painter of French descent (died 1750)
* date unknown
* Jan George Freezen, German portrait painter (died 1775)
* Thomas Hudson, English portrait painter (died 1779)
* Matthew Pilkington, Irish art historian and satirist (died 1774)
* José Romeo, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (died 1722)

## Deaths

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* January 1 – Henri Gascar, French painter (born 1635)
* March 28 – Domenico Guidi, sculptor (born 1625)
* May 8 – Jacob de Heusch, painter (born 1656)
* June 29 – Pieter Mulier II, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1637)
* July 16 – Justus Danckerts, Dutch engraver (born 1635)
* July 24 – John Bushnell, English sculptor (date of birth unknown)
* date unknown – Jacob Gillig, Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, usually of fish, as well as portraits (born 1636)

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