1710 in art

Events from the year 1710 in art.

Events

Paintings

Portrait of James Stanhope by Godfrey Kneller

• John James Baker – The Whig Junto
• Aert de Gelder – The Baptism of Christ (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) (approximate date)
• Thomas Gibson – Portrait of Henry Sacheverell
• Godfrey Kneller
  • Portrait of Admiral George Delaval MP
  • Portrait of James Stanhope
• Antoine Pesne – Portrait of Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt
• Sebastiano Ricci (Bergamo)
  • Assumption
  • Call of Saint Peter
  • Christ delivers the keys to Saint Peter
  • Liberation of Saint Peter
• John Verelst – Four Mohawk Kings

Births

• March 4 – Aert Schouman, Dutch painter, glass engraver and art dealer (died 1792)
• March 8 – Gaetano Majorano, Italian castrato and opera singer (died 1783)
• May 8 – Peter Anton von Verschaffelt, Flemish sculptor and architect (died 1793)
• May 23 – François Gaspard Adam, French rococo sculptor (died 1781)
• August 22 – Johann August Nahl, German sculptor and stucco artist (died 1781)
• August 27 – Giuseppe Vasi, Italian artist (died 1782)
• September 3 – Abraham Trembley, Swiss naturalist and zoological artist (died 1784)
• October 4 – Count Augustin Ehrensvärd, Swedish military architect and painter (died 1772)
• October 11 – Christophe-Gabriel Allegrain, French sculptor in the neoclassical style (died 1795)
• December 15 – Francesco Zahra, Maltese painter (died 1773)
• date unknown
  • Pierre-Charles Canot, French engraver who spent most of his career in England (died 1777)
  • Francesco Foschi, Italian landscape painter (died 1780)
  • Yi Insang, Korean painter and government officer in the late Joseon period (died 1760)
  • José Luzán, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1785)
  • Michele Marieschi, Italian painter of landscapes or vistas (a vedutisti) (died 1743)
  • Tibout Regters, Dutch portrait painter (died 1768)
  • Jean Valade, French painter (died 1787)
  • Yi Insang, Korean painter of the later Joseon period (died 1760)
• probable
  • Jean Baptiste Claude Chatelain, French engraver (died 1771)
  • Georg Franz Ebenhech, German sculptor (died 1757)
  • Marcos Zapata, Peruvian Quechua painter (died 1773)

Deaths

• January 30 – Madeleine Boullogne, French painter (born 1646)
• September 20 – Margherita Caffi, Italian woman painter of still life (born 1650)
• September 21 – Joseph Werner, Swiss miniaturist (born 1637)
• October 5 – John Baptist Medina, Flemish-Spanish portrait painter and illustrator of Paradise Lost (born 1659)
• date unknown
  • Germain Audran, French engraver (born 1631)
  • Giovanni Antonio Fumiani, Italian painter (born 1645)
  • Heinrich Charasky, Hungarian sculptor (born 1656)
  • Jacob Leyssens, Flemish painter and decorator from the Baroque (born 1661)
  • Basilio Santa Cruz Pumacallao, Quechua painter from Cusco, Peru (born 1635)
  • Johann Gustav Stockenberg, Swedish sculptor and stonemason (born 1660)
  • Sebastiano Taricco, Italian painter (born 1645)
  • Anna Maria Thelott, Swedish engraver, illustrator, woodcut-artist, and miniaturist painter (born 1683)
  • Girolamo Troppa, Italian painter (born 1637)
  • Giovanni Francesco Venturini, Italian painter and engraver (born 1650)
  • Simon Pietersz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1644)
  • Giuseppe Zimbalo, Italian architect and sculptor (born 1617)
  • 1710/1715: Jean Cornu, French sculptor (born 1650)