1714 in art

Events from the year 1714 in art.

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Events

• Antoine Coypel becomes director of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.

Paintings

• Charles Jervas – Portrait of Alexander Pope
• Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of Robert Harley as Lord High Treasurer
• Nicolas de Largilliere - Portrait of a lady as Pomona, traditionally identified as the Marquise de Parabère^[1][2]
• Johann Michael Rottmayr – Coronation of Our Lady (fresco on dome of St. Peter's Church, Vienna)

Births

• January 21 – Anna Morandi Manzolini, Bolognese sculptor in wax (died 1774)
• January 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (died 1785)
• March 6 – Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, French painter, drawer and administrator (died 1789)
• March 25 – Friedrich Christian Glume, German sculptor (died 1752)
• August 1 – Richard Wilson, landscape painter (died 1782)
• August 14 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (died 1789)
• August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Descamps, French writer and painter of village scenes (died 1791)
• November – Pierre-François Brice, Belgian painter (died 1794)
• date unknown
  • Philippe Caffieri, French sculptor (died 1774)
  • Étienne Fessard, French engraver (died 1774)
  • Thomas Johnson, English wood carver and furniture maker (died 1778)
  • Robert Taylor, English stonemason, sculptor and architect (died 1788)

Deaths

• April 28 – Jean-Jacques Clérion, French sculptor (born 1637)
• May – Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor and architect in the Petrine Baroque style (born 1664)
• May 11 – Pierre Le Gros the Elder, French sculptor for the Versailles (born 1629)
• August 20 – Cristóbal de Villalpando, Mexican painter (born 1649)
• October 4 – Peter Strudel, Austrian sculptor and painter (born 1660)
• November 2 – Giuseppe Passeri, Italian painter, active in his native city of Rome (born 1654)
• December 15 – Giovanni Monevi, Italian painter (born 1637)
• date unknown
  • Niccolò Cassana, Venetian portrait painter working in London (born 1659)
  • Giovanni Battista Cimaroli, Italian painter of landscapes (born 1653)
  • Filippo Maria Galletti, Italian painter of religious works and a Theatine priest (born 1636)
  • Gennaro Greco, Italian, also known as "Il Mascacotta", veduta painter (born 1663)

References

1. "Portrait of a lady as Pomona". Sotheby's. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
2. "Heir of art collector Jules Strauss forced to sell painting taken by Nazis". MSN.