1706 in art

Events from the year 1706 in art.

Events

Engraver Sébastien Leclerc is granted the title of cavaliere Romano by the Pope.

Jan Brokoff – Statue of St Joseph (on the Charles Bridge in Prague; later replaced)
Giovanni Battista Parodi – The Miracle of the Chains of Peter (ceiling fresco in San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome)

January 3 – Johann Caspar Füssli, portrait painter (died 1782)
January 17 – George Michael Moser, Swiss-born enameller (died 1783)
February 12 – Johann Joseph Christian, German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver (died 1777)
February 26 – Jan Antonín Vocásek, Czech Baroque still-life painter (died 1757)
March 4 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect (died 1759)
March 12 – Johan Pasch, Swedish painter (died 1769)
March 23 – Anna Maria Barbara Abesch, Swiss reverse glass painter (died 1773)
April 1 – Christian Friedrich Boetius, German engraver (died 1782)
April 30 – Philipp Jakob Straub, Austrian sculptor (died 1774)
June 15 – Johann Joachim Kändler, German modeller of Meissen porcelain in a rococo style (died 1775)
September 8 – Antoine de Favray, French portrait painter (died 1798)
date unknown
Sabina Auffenwerth, German potter (died 1782)
Johan Backman, Finnish painter (died 1768)
George Bickham the Younger, English etcher, engraver, printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists (died 1771)
Simon François Ravenet, French engraver (died 1774)
Pieter Tanjé, engraver from the Northern Netherlands (died 1761)
Miguel Verdiguier, French sculptor (died 1796)