1703 in art
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Events from the year 1703 in art.
Events[]
- May – The Cabin of Peter the Great is constructed in three days,[1] by soldiers of the Semyonovsky Regiment.[2] Its wooden walls are painted with red oil to resemble brick, and the rooms come to be known as the "red chambers".
- Pierre Le Gros the Younger completes the tomb of Cardinal Girolamo Casanate in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Rome.
Paintings[]
- Nicolas de Largillière – La belle Strasbourgeoise
- Sebastiano Ricci – Rape of the Sabine Women
- Adriaen van der Werff – Jesus Laid in the Tomb
- Lancelot Volders – Group portrait of the Leuven justices
Births[]
- February 18 – Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (died 1765)[3]
- September 29 – François Boucher, French Rococo painter, engraver and designer (died 1770)[4]
- date unknown
- Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English sculptor (died 1781)
- Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (died 1778)
- Gaetano Sabatini, Italian draftsman and painter (died 1734)
- Andrea Soldi, Italian portrait painter working in London (died 1771)
- William Taverner, English judge and landscape artist (died 1772)
Deaths[]
- March 16 – Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter (born 1645)[5]
- March 30 – Lazzaro Baldi, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome (born 1624)
- April 8 – Domenico Piola, Genoese painter (born 1627)
- May 3 – Eglon van der Neer, Dutch painter of portraits and landscapes (born 1634)
- July 26 – Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family (born 1640)
- October 13 – Marie Courtois, French miniature painter (born 1655)
- December 29 – Pierre Monier, French painter, winner of the Prix de Rome (born 1639)[6]
- date unknown
- Sébastien Barras, French painter and engraver (born 1653)
- Mosen Vicente Bru, Spanish painter (born 1682)
- Biagio Falcieri, Italian painter of the Baroque era (born 1628)
- Giuseppe Nuvolone, Italian painter active mainly in Milan, Brescia, and Cremona (born 1619)
- Bogdan Saltanov, Armenian-born Russian painter (born 1630s)
- Jan Siberechts, Flemish painter (born 1627)
- Matthias Withoos, Dutch painter of still lifes and city scenes (born 1627)
- probable (or 1704) – Pompeo Ghitti, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1631)
References[]
- ^ Explorations in St Petersburg and Saint Petersburg: Museums, Palaces, and Historic Collections say 1703; Petriva dates it to 1707
- ^ The Companion Guide to St Petersburg
- ^ Bulletin. City Art Museum of St. Louis. 1996. p. 31.
- ^ William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck Duke of Portland; Charles Fairfax Murray (1894). Catalogue of the Pictures Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland: At Welbeck Abbey, and in London. 1894. Pr. at the Chiswick Press. p. 165.
- ^ Gaze, Delia; Mihajlovic, Maja; Shrimpton, Leanda (1997). Dictionary of women artists. London: Fitzroy Dearborn. p. 462. ISBN 978-1-88496-421-3.
- ^ et Louis Auvray, Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française, Paris, Renouard, 1882-1885, p. 132.
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