Overview of the events of 1720 in art
Events from the year 1720 in art .
Events
Works
Antoine Watteau , L'Enseigne de Gersaint (1720): In one of Watteau's last paintings, the portrait of Louis XIV and his own artworks are being packed away.
Births
January 19 – John Boydell , engraver (died 1804 )
January 20 – Bernardo Bellotto , Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista , and printmaker in etching (died 1780 )
August 15 – Charles Norbert Roettiers , French engraver and medallist (died 1772 )
October 4 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi , Italian artist (died 1778 )
November 30 – André Soares , Portuguese sculptor and architect (died 1769 )
date unknown
Pierre-Edmé Babel , French engraver (died 1775 )
John Giles Eccardt , German-born English portrait painter (died 1779 )
Charles-Dominique-Joseph Eisen , French painter and draftsman (died 1778 )
Edme Dumont , French sculptor (died 1775 )
Pietro Gaspari , Italian artist, known for veduta and capriccio in etchings and paintings (died 1785 )
Carlo Magini , Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1806 )
Johannes Rach , Danish painter and draughtsman (died 1783 )
Giuseppe Sanmartino , Italian sculptor during the Rococo period (died 1793 )
Isak Wacklin , Finnish painter (died 1758 )
Georg Caspar von Prenner, Austrian artist (died 1766 ), son of Anton Joseph von Prenner, Austrian artist (1683/98?–1761)
date probably
Deaths
References
^ Harmsworth Encyclopedia (1905).