1709 in art

• The Baroque church of Santa María Magdalena, Seville, is completed. ==Paintings==

• Paolo Baronni – Frescoes in the Basilica of St Denis. • Giuseppe Maria Crespi – The Flea. • Sir Godfrey Kneller Portraits of Admirals Sir John Jennings and Sir Stafford Fairborne. • Kanō Tsunenobu – Portrait of a Japanese official. ==Births==

• March 22 – Giuseppe Zais, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutisti) (died 1784) • June 11 – Joachim Martin Falbe, German portrait painter (died 1782) • December 24 – Johann Evangelist Holzer, Austrian-German painter (died 1740) • date unknown • Giuseppe Angeli, Italian painter of the late-baroque active mainly in Venice (died 1798) • Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver (died 1761) • John Cheere, English sculptor (died 1787) • Johann Michael Feuchtmayer, German stucco sculptor and plasterer (died 1772) • Jean Girardet, French painter of portrait miniatures (died 1778) • Violante Beatrice Siries, Italian painter (died 1783) ==Deaths==

• April 2 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Italian painter (born 1639) • April 5 – Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (born 1635) • August 31 – Andrea Pozzo, Italian Baroque architect, decorator, stage designer, painter, and art theoretician (born 1642) • September – Thomas Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (born 1661) • December 7 – Meindert Hobbema, Dutch landscape painter (born 1638) • date unknown • Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles, French engraver, painter, and collector (born 1650) • Geronimo de Bobadilla, Spanish painter (born 1630) • Antonio Franchi, Italian painter active mainly in Florence and Lucca (born 1638) • Bartolomeo Guidobono, Italian painter, active mainly in Northern Italy (born 1654) • Henry Gyles, English glass painter (born 1640) • Johan Teyler, Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver (born 1648) • Yu Zhiding, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1647)