1726 in art
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Events from the year 1726 in art.
Events
- A silver statue of the Annunciation is sculpted in Augsburg for Mariánská Týnice, on the order of Abbot Eugen Tittl; it was later melted down for coins, along with the rest of the church's treasures.
Paintings
- Elias Gottlob Haussmann – Gottfried Reiche
- Sebastiano Ricci
- Moses make water gush from the rock
- Susanna in front of Daniel
- Johann Heinrich Tischbein – Portrait of the Artist's first Wife, Marie Sophie Robert
Births
- February 7 – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (died 1766){{cite book | first=H.C. | last=Maxwell-Lyte | year=1909 | title=A History of Dunster | page=225 | url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofdunster01lyte | location=London | publisher=The St Catherine Press | access-date=5 February 2021 }}
- March 24 – Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (died 1764)
- April 18 (baptised) – François-Thomas Germain, French silversmith (died 1791)
- May 20 – Francis Cotes, English painter (died 1770)
- August 24 - Peter Cramer, Danish book illustrator, decorative and theatrical painter (died 1782)
- October 15 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (died 1778)
- October 16 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (died 1801)
- November 30 – Jacques Aliamet, French engraver (died 1788)
- date unknown
- John Baker, English flower painter (died 1771)
- Michel-Bruno Bellengé, French painter (died 1793)
- Giovanni Battista Brostoloni, Italian engraver (died unknown)
- Gabriel François Doyen, French painter (died 1806)
- Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style (died 1792){{cite book|first1=Kristen L.|last1=Chiem|first2=Lara C. W.|last2=Blanchard|title=Gender, Continuity, and the Shaping of Modernity in the Arts of East Asia, 16th–20th Centuries|location=Leiden|publisher=Brill|year=2017|page=125|isbn=978-9-00434-894-3}}
- François-Gaspard Teuné, French ébéniste (cabinet-maker) (died 1788)
- Antonio Zucchi, Italian painter of the Neoclassic period (died 1795)
- probable
- Odvardt Helmoldt von Lode, Danish painter and engraver (died 1757)
Deaths
- February 18 – Jacques Carrey, French painter and draughtsman (born 1649)
- April 13 – Antonio Palomino, Spanish painter, writer on art theory, and biographer of artists (born 1653)
- August 13 – Anthoni Schoonjans, Belgian painter (born 1655)
- October 10 – Tommaso Redi, Italian painter, active in his native Florence (born 1665)
- November 15 – Giacomo del Po, Italian painter of emblematical and allegorical subjects (born 1654)
- November 22 – Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter born in Florence (born 1652)
- December 14 – François Dumont, French sculptor (born 1688)
- date unknown
- Teodoro Ardemans, Spanish architect and painter (born unknown)
- François Barois, French sculptor (born 1656)
- Antonio Bellucci (or Antonijus Belutis), painter from Treviso (born 1654)
- Jiao Bingzhen, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty (born 1689)
- Gregorio De Ferrari, Italian painter of the Genoese school (born 1647)
- Girolamo Gatti, Italian painter (born 1682)
- Sébastien Slodtz, French sculptor (born 1655)
- Pier Lorenzo Spoleti, Italian painter of portraits and reproductions of old masters (born 1680)