# 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 – Portrait of Queen Caroline of Ansbach
* 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)