1723 in art

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Events from the year 1723 in art.

## Events

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* Following Sir Godfrey Kneller's death, the Irish-born Charles Jervas succeeds him as Principal Portrait Painter to King George I of Great Britain.
* Scottish-born painter William Aikman settles in London as a portraitist under the patronage of John Campbell, Duke of Argyll.[1]
* Nishikawa Sukenobu publishes the set of prints One Hundred Women Classified According to their Rank (Hyakunin joro shina-sadame) in 2 volumes.
* Sculptor Mario Diamanti begins work on the monumental façade of St. Sebastian, Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily.

## Paintings

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* William Aikman – Portrait of Lady Anne Cochrane
* Canaletto – Architectural Capriccio (his first known signed and dated work)
* Thomas Gibson – Portrait of George Vertue
* François Lemoyne – Perseus and Andromeda
* Jean Ranc – The Family of Philip V
* Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Cardinal Dubois
* Christian Friedrich Zincke – Catherine Edwin (miniature)

## Births

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* February 3 – Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter (died 1778)
* April 12 – Franz Anton Bustelli, Swiss-born Bavarian porcelain modeller (died 1763)
* May 6 – Ike no Taiga, Japanese painter and calligrapher (died 1776)
* July 2 \- Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (died 1806)
* July 16 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter, specializing in portraits (died 1792)
* October 17 – Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, French miniature painter and engraver (died 1769)
* October 23 \- Pierre-François Basan, French engraver (died 1797)
* November 14 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss landscape painter and etcher (died 1786)
* date unknown
* Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter (died 1797)
* Johann Karl Auerbach, Austrian painter (died 1786)
* William Baillie, Irish engraver (died 1792)
* Maria Carowsky, Swedish artist (died 1793)
* Giovanni Battista Chiappe, Italian painter (died 1765)
* Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter (died 1798)
* Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher (died 1794)
* Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (died 1760)
* Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (died 1793)

## Deaths

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* February 11 \- Heinrich Meyring, German sculptor (born 1628)
* March – Lancelot Volders, Flemish painter (buried in Brussels on 23 March; born 1636)[2]
* October 19 – Sir Godfrey Kneller, English court painter (born 1646)
* December 6 – Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver (born 1688)
* date unknown
* Giacinto Garofalini, Italian painter (born 1661)
* Maria Cattarina Locatelli, Italian painter from Bologna (born unknown)[3]
* Angelo Massarotti, Italian painter active in his native Cremona (born 1653)

## References

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1. ^ "Aikman, William". ElectricScotland. Retrieved 2012-04-16.
2. ^ Kelchtermans, Leen (2013). "Brussel - Leeuwarden: nieuwe gegevens over de Brusselse schilders Lancelot en Louis Volders". In Kelchtermans, L.; Van der Stighelen, K.; Brosens, K. (eds.). Embracing Brussels. Art and Culture in the Court City, 1600-1800. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. pp. 213–238\. ISBN 978-2-503-54228-7. (in Dutch)
3. ^ Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 67.

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