1718 in art
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Events

Paintings

Births

• April 24 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (died 1784)
• June 5 - Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (died 1779)
• Jakob Emanuel Handmann, Swiss painter (d. 1781)
• Johann Melchior Kambly, Swiss sculptor who took part in the development of the architectural style of Frederician Rococo (d. 1783)
• Agostino Carlini, Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1790)
• Maria Maddalena Baldacci - Italian painter born in Florence (died 1782)
• Giambettino Cignaroli - Italian painter of the Rococo and early Neoclassic period (d. 1770)
• Alexander Roslin - Swedish portrait painter (d. 1793)
• Martin Johann Schmidt - Austrian painters of the late Baroque/Rococo (d. 1801)

Deaths

• May 29 - Giuseppe Avanzi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1645)
• Kanō Tanshin - Japanese painter (d. 1653)
• Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer - German sculptor and stuccoist (b. 1660)
• Giuseppe Laudati - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1672)
• Girolamo Odam - Italian painter, pastel portaitist and landscape artist, as well as wood engraver (b. 1681)
• Pasquale Rossi - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1641)
• Wu Li - Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (b. 1632)