1717 in art

Overview of the events of 1717 in art

Overview of the events of 1717 in art

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Events from the year 1717 in art.

## Events[edit]

* April 13 – Thomas Coke purchases a marble statue of Artemis/Diana dated to 190–200 AD, believed to be a copy of a mid 4th century BC Hellenistic original, for 900 crowns, making it the most expensive item he acquired for the art collections of Holkham Hall.

## Paintings[edit]

Watteau – Embarkation for Cythera

* Charles Jervas – Portrait of Isaac Newton
* Jean-Marc Nattier – Portraits of Peter the Great and Catherine I of Russia
* Enoch Seeman – Portrait of Elihu Yale
* Antoine Watteau
* The Embarkation for Cythera[1]
* Les plaisirs du bal (approximate date)

## Statues[edit]

* Equestrian statue of George I in Birmingham by John Nost[2]

## Births[edit]

* February 14 – Jan Palthe, Dutch portrait painter (died 1769)
* February 17 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor (died 1799)
* April 23 – Pieter Barbiers, Dutch painter (died 1780)
* May 4 \- Jean-Charles François, French engraver (died 1769)
* June 20 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor (died 1776)
* August 11 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect, designer, and painter (died 1760)
* December 4 – Norbert Grund, Czech painter of the Rococo style (died 1767)
* date unknown
* Giuseppe Bottani, Italian painter active in the Baroque period (died 1784)
* Alexander Cozens, British landscape-painter in water-colours and published teacher of painting (died 1786)
* Robert Wood, British engraver, gentleman and politician (died 1771)

## Deaths[edit]

* January 16 – Elias Brenner, Swedish painter and archeologist (born 1647)
* February 18 – Giovanni Maria Morandi, Italian painter of altarpieces (born 1622)
* April 5 – Jean Jouvenet, French painter (born 1647)
* April 8 \- Antoine Benoist, French painter and sculptor (born 1632)
* May 7 – Bon Boullogne, French painter (born 1649)
* November 21 – Jean-Baptiste Santerre, French painter (born 1650)
* date unknown
* Luigi Quaini, Italian painter of landscapes and architecture (born 1643)
* Carlo Antonio Rambaldi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1680)
* Girolamo Ruggieri, Italian painter of landscapes and battle paintings (born 1662)
* John Slezer, Dutch\- or German-born military engineer and artist (born 1650)
* Wang Hui, Chinese landscape painter, the best known of the Four Wangs (born 1632)

## References[edit]

1. ^ Grasselli, Margaret Morgan (1984). Watteau, 1684-1721. Pierre Rosenberg, Nicole Parmantier, Antoine Watteau, National Gallery of Art, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Schloss Charlottenburg. Washington. pp. 398–399. ISBN 0-89468-074-9. OCLC 10696419.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
2. ^ De Courcy, John (1988). Anna Liffey. The river of Dublin. Dublin: O'Brien Press.