1720 in art
# 1720 in art

Events from the year 1720 in art.

## Events

* May 2 – James Thornhill, Serjeant Painter to King George I of Great Britain, is knighted, the first native English artist to be so honoured.
* John Michael Rysbrack settles in London.
* Portraitist Rosalba Carriera moves temporarily from Venice to Paris.
* The interior decoration of Santo Sepolcro (Pisa) is restored.

## Works

* Rosalba Carriera – Maria Josepha of Austria
* Peter Scheemakers – Bust of John Dryden (Westminster Abbey)
* Antoine Watteau
   * The Judgement of Paris (approximate date)
   * The shop sign of Gersaint

## 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
   * Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (died 1771)
   * Jonas Haas, German-born Danish engraver (died 1775)

## Deaths

* March 6 – Pieter van Bloemen, Flemish painter (born 1657)
* June 3 – Cristoforo Munari, Italian painter specializing in still life (born 1667)
* October 10 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor emigrated from Spain (born 1640)
* November 19 - Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors and a sculptor (born 1659)
* date unknown
   * Giovanni Agostino Cassana, Italian painter of animals and subject pictures (born 1658)
   * Orazio Marinali, Italian sculptor, active mainly in Veneto (born 1643)
   * Tao Chi, Chinese landscape painter (born 1641)
   * Adriaen van Salm, Dutch draftsman and painter (born 1660)
* probable
   * Alberto Carlieri, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (born 1672)
