1723 in art

• Following Sir Godfrey Kneller's death, the Irish-born Charles Jervas succeeds him as Principal Portrait Painter to King George I of Great Britain. • Scottish-born painter William Aikman settles in London as a portraitist under the patronage of John Campbell, Duke of Argyll. • Nishikawa Sukenobu publishes the set of prints One Hundred Women Classified According to their Rank (Hyakunin joro shina-sadame) in 2 volumes. • Sculptor Mario Diamanti begins work on the monumental façade of St. Sebastian, Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily. ==Paintings==

• William Aikman – Portrait of Lady Anne Cochrane • Canaletto – Architectural Capriccio (his first known signed and dated work) • Thomas Gibson – Portrait of George Vertue • François Lemoyne – Perseus and Andromeda • Jean Ranc – The Family of Philip V • Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Cardinal Dubois • Christian Friedrich Zincke – Catherine Edwin (miniature) ==Births==

• February 3 – Catherine Read, Scottish portrait-painter (died 1778) • April 12 – Franz Anton Bustelli, Swiss-born Bavarian porcelain modeller (died 1763) • May 6 – Ike no Taiga, Japanese painter and calligrapher (died 1776) • July 2 - Václav Bernard Ambrosi, Czech miniature painter (died 1806) • July 16 – Joshua Reynolds, English painter, specializing in portraits (died 1792) • October 17 – Pierre-Antoine Baudouin, French miniature painter and engraver (died 1769) • October 23 - Pierre-François Basan, French engraver (died 1797) • November 14 – Johann Ludwig Aberli, Swiss landscape painter and etcher (died 1786) • date unknown • Giorgio Anselmi, Italian painter (died 1797) • Johann Karl Auerbach, Austrian painter (died 1786) • William Baillie, Irish engraver (died 1792) • Maria Carowsky, Swedish artist (died 1793) • Giovanni Battista Chiappe, Italian painter (died 1765) • Gavin Hamilton, Scottish neoclassical history painter (died 1798) • Giacomo Leonardis, Italian engraver and etcher (died 1794) • Domenico Quaglio the Elder, Italian painter (died 1760) • Antonio González Velázquez, Spanish late-Baroque painter (died 1793) ==Deaths==

• February 11 - Heinrich Meyring, German sculptor (born 1628) • March – Lancelot Volders, Flemish painter (buried in Brussels on 23 March; born 1636) • October 19 – Sir Godfrey Kneller, English court painter (born 1646) • December 6 – Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver (born 1688) • date unknown • Giacinto Garofalini, Italian painter (born 1661) • Maria Cattarina Locatelli, Italian painter from Bologna (born unknown) • Angelo Massarotti, Italian painter active in his native Cremona (born 1653) ==References==