# 1700 in art

Events from the year 1700 in art.

## Events

* Luca Giordano returns to Naples a wealthy man after the death of his patron, Charles II of Spain.
* Pierre Le Gros the Younger is elected to the Accademia di San Luca.

## Works

* Richard Brakenburgh – A May Queen Festival
* Pierre Gobert
** Portrait of Abbé Fleury
** Portrait of Françoise-Marie de Bourbon, Duchess of Chartres
* Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of Lady Mary Berkeley, wife of Thomas Chambers
* Sebastiano Ricci
** Frescoes and Saint Gregory the Great intercedes with the Madonna in chapel of Santissimo Sacramento in church of Abbey of Santa Giustina, Padua
** Venus and Cupid (approximate date: 1549

## Births

* January 1 – Antonio Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter, also at Vienna Hofburg (died 1774)
* January 8 – Augustyn Mirys, Polish painter (died 1790)
* March 3 – Charles-Joseph Natoire, French painter (died 1777)
* May 12 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian-born architect (died 1773)
* August 18 – Lars Pinnerud, Norwegian farmer and woodcarver (died 1762)
* September 25 – Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (died 1778)
* October 10 – Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (died 1759)
* date unknown
** Bernard Baron, French engraver (died 1766)
** Elizabeth Blackwell, Scottish botanical illustrator and author (died 1758)
** Francesco Caccianiga, Italian painter and engraver (died 1781)
** Tommaso Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (died 1747)
** Michel-François Dandré-Bardon, French historical painter and etcher (died 1785)
** Antonio Joli, Italian painter of veduta (died 1777)
** Krzysztof Perwanger, Polish sculptor and mayor (died 1785)
** Felice Polanzani, Italian engraver (died 1771)
** Rocco Pozzi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1780)
** Ivan Ranger, Austrian painter (died 1753)
** Antonio Rossi, Italian painter (died 1773)
** Mattheus Verheyden, Dutch painter (died 1776)
** Jacopo Zoboli, Italian etcher and painter of altarpieces and portraits (died 1765)
** Gaetano Zompini, Italian printmaker and engraver (died 1778)
* probable – Giuseppe Peroni, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1776)

## Deaths

* March 4 – Lorenzo Pasinelli, Italian painter in a Mannerist style of genre-like allegories (born 1629)
* May 30 – Antoine Masson, French line engraver (born 1636)
* July 2 – Lambert Doomer, Dutch painter (born 1624)
* September 15 – André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (born 1613)
* October 29 – Giovanni Giacomo Borni, Italian painter, active in Lombardy (born 1635)
* November 7 – Pietro Santi Bartoli, painter and engraver (born 1635)
* date unknown
** Francisco Antolínez, Spanish historical and landscape painter (born 1644)
** Pietro Bellotti, Italian painter (born 1625)
** Agostino Bonisoli, Italian painter, active mainly in Cremona (born 1633)
** Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor active in England (born 1630)
** Ricardo do Pilar, Brazilian monk and painter (born 1635)
** Matteo Ghidoni, Italian painter of burlesque genre paintings (date of birth unknown)
** Agostino Lamma, Italian painter specializing in battle paintings (born 1636)
** Pedro Nuñez de Villavicencio, Spanish painter (born 1635)
** Johannes Skraastad, Norwegian woodcarver (born 1648)
** Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Danish sculptor and architect (born 1639)
** Jacobus Storck, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1641)
** Giovanni Maria Viani, Italian painter and etcher (born 1636)
** Muhammad Zaman, Safavid calligrapher and painter (born unknown)
* probable
** Edmund Ashfield, English portrait painter and miniaturist (born unknown)
** Giulio Giacinto Avellino, Italian painter (born 1645)
** Bernardo Polo, Spanish painter depicting still-life paintings of fruit and flowers (born unknown)