1720 in art

• 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==

, ''L'Enseigne de Gersaint'' (1720): In one of Watteau's last paintings, the portrait of Louis XIV and his own artworks are being packed away. • William Aikman – Portrait of the Duke of Argyll • 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) ==References==