1707 in art

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Events from the year 1707 in art.

Events

• Antoine Coypel becomes professor and rector of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
• James Thornhill begins work on the Painted Hall of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich (completed 1727), probably having concluded work at Chatsworth House.

Valkenburg – A Plantation in Suriname, the earliest known painting of this Dutch colony

Paintings

• Michael Dahl – Portrait of Sir William Whetstone (probable date)
• Andrea Pozzo – Admittance of Hercules to Olympus (trompe-l'œil painting on ceiling of Liechtenstein Garden Palace, Vienna)
• Francesco Solimena – Portrait of Charles III of Habsburg
• Dirk Valkenburg – A Plantation in Suriname
• Willem van de Velde the Younger – The Gust

Births

• January 11 – Giuseppe Bonito, Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period (died 1789)
• February 27 – Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter of portraits, church decorations, and castle depictions (died 1782)
• March 2 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (died 1771)
• May 21 – Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (died 1781)
• July 8 – Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French engraver (died 1783)
• September 30 – Pietro Rotari, Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces (died 1762)
• date unknown
  • Joseph Badger, American portrait artist (died 1765)
  • Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, French art critic and director of the official French policy in the arts (died 1781)
  • William Hoare, English painter, noted for his pastels (died 1792)
  • Sim Sajeong, Korean genre painter in the style of the Joseon period (died 1769)
  • Maria Felice Tibaldi, Italian painter of portraits and historical subjects (died unknown)

Deaths

• February 16 – Hendrik Bary, Dutch engraver (born 1632)
• February 22 – Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta (born 1646)
• April 2 – Gerard Edelinck, Flemish copper-plate engraver (born 1649)
• April 6 – Willem van de Velde the Younger (born 1633)
• June 15 – Antonio Verrio, Italian painter of altarpieces, master gardener, active mainly in England (born 1639)
• October 1 – Pierre Le Ber, portrait painter from Montreal (born 1669)
• December 24 – Noël Coypel, French painter (born 1628)
• date unknown – Alessandro Mari, Italian painter of capricci and symbolical representations (born 1650)