1721 in art

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Events from the year 1721 in art.

Events

The Ascension Convent in Moscow is renovated by order of Tsar Peter I of Russia.

Paintings

Antoine Watteau – Pilgrimage to Cythera

Births

January 17 – Charles Germain de Saint Aubin, draftsman and embroidery designer to King Louis XV (died 1786)
August 10 – Dirk van der Burg, Dutch artist, landscape painter and watercolourist (died 1773)
date unknown
- Francesco Albotto, Italian painter (died 1757)
- Jean Charles Baquoy, French engraver (died 1777)
- Charles Joseph Flipart, French painter and engraver (died 1797)
- Charles Grignion the Elder, British engraver and draughtsman (died 1810)
- Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni, Italian portrait painter (died 1782)

Deaths

April 20 – Louis Laguerre, French decorative painter working in England (born 1663)
July 18 – Antoine Watteau, painter (born 1684)
August 3 – Grinling Gibbons, English master wood carver (born 1648)
September 3 - Benoît Audran the Elder, French engraver (born 1661)
December 19 – Bonaventura Lamberti, Italian painter active mainly in Rome (born 1653)
date unknown
- Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter active in Genoa (born 1640)
- Francesco Antonio Caneti, Italian miniature painter (born 1652)
- Andrea dell'Asta, Italian painter (born 1673)
- John Faber the Elder, Dutch portrait engraver active in London (born 1660)
- Luigi Garzi, Italian painter (born 1638)
- Giuseppe Ghezzi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome (born 1634)
- Nicola Malinconico, Neapolitan painter (born 1663)
- Jose Risueño, Spanish painter who helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery (born 1640)

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