1724 in art

• Swiss artist Johann Caspar Füssli goes to Vienna to study painting. • Charles-Antoine Coypel publishes his illustrations for Don Quixote in a deluxe folio in Paris. ==Paintings==

• Canaletto • Grand Canal, Looking East from the Campo San Vio (Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid) • Grand Canal, Looking Northeast from Palazo Balbi toward the Rialto Bridge • Piazza San Marco • Rio dei Mendicanti • Jan van Huysum – Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn (see image) • Charles Jervas – Henrietta Howard, Countess of Suffolk • Sebastiano Ricci • Bathsheba in her Bath • Repudiation of Agar • Solomon adores the idols • Peter Tillemans – The Thames at Twickenham ==Births==

• January 16 – Per Krafft the Elder, Swedish portrait painter (died 1793) • April 14 – Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, French draftsman, printmaker, etcher and painter (died 1780) • June 7 – Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Austrian painter (died 1796) • August 25 – George Stubbs, British painter, best known for his paintings of horses (died 1806) • November 19 – Jacobus Buys, Dutch painter and engraver (died 1801) • December 30 – Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (died 1805) • date unknown • Antonio Baratti, Italian engraver (died 1787) • Antonio Beltrami, Italian painter active in the late-Baroque and Neoclassic periods (died 1784) • Jonas Bergman, Finnish painter (died 1810) • Henry Blundell, art collector (died 1810) • Benjamin Calau, German portrait painter who used an encaustic technique (died 1783) • Ignazio Collino, Italian sculptor (died 1793) • Suzuki Harunobu, Japanese woodblock print artist, one of the most famous in the Ukiyo-e style (died 1770) • Gustaf Lucander, Finnish painter (died 1805) ==Deaths==

• January 12 – Felice Cignani, Italian painter from Bologna (born 1660), son of Carlo Cignani • February 7 – Hanabusa Itchō, Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku poet (born 1652) • February 23 – Lucas de Valdés, Spanish painter and engraver (born 1661) • June 17 – Benedetto Luti, Italian painter of pastel portraits (born 1666) • September 20 – David von Krafft, German-Swedish painter, nephew of David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl and his successor at the Swedish Royal Court (born 1655) • October 25 - José de Mora, Spanish sculptor (born 1642) • November 11 – Jakob Bogdani, Slovak still-life painter (born 1660) • date unknown • Ferrante Amendola, Italian historical painter (born 1664) • Philippe Bertrand, French sculptor (born 1663) • Serafino Brizzi, Italian engraver of the Baroque period (born 1684) • Sigismondo Caula, Italian painter (born 1637) • Benoît Farjat, French engraver (born 1646) • Pietro Paolo Raggi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of Bacchanal and landscape subjects (born 1646) • Ezaias Terwesten, Dutch painter (born 1661) • Franz Werner von Tamm, German-born, Italian painter (born 1658) • Jan Pietersz Zomer, Dutch engraver, copyist, and art collector (born 1641) ==References==