This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1729.
Willem Claeszoon Heda was a Dutch Golden Age artist from the city of Haarlem devoted exclusively to the painting of still life. He is known for his innovation of the late breakfast genre of still life painting.
Cornelis de Bie was a Flemish rederijker, poet, jurist and minor politician from Lier. He is the author of about 64 works, mostly comedies. He is known internationally today for his biographical sketches of Flemish and Dutch painters in his Het Gulden Cabinet der Edel Vry Schilderconst, first printed in 1662.
Arnold Houbraken was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters.
Jan Albertsz. Rotius was a Dutch painter known for his individual and group portraits, breakfast still lifes, kitchen still lifes and fruit still lifes. He was active in Hoorn and was the father of the flower painter Jacob Rotius.
Michiel Carree or Carré was a Dutch Golden Age painter.
Theodorus van Pee (1668–1746) was an 18th-century painter and art dealer from the Northern Netherlands.
Gysbrecht Thys or Gysbrechts Thys was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp known for his religious and mythological works as well as for his nudes. He also painted landscapes. Very few paintings have been attributed to the artist to date.
Jan Frans van Son or Frans van Son was a Flemish still life painter. The son of the prominent Antwerp still life painter Joris van Son, he trained with another prominent still life artist Jan Pauwel Gillemans the Elder. He left for England at a young age and had a successful career in London. He painted flower pieces, fruit still lifes and banquet still lifes.
Otto Hoynck, was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter active in England.
Maria Verelst (1680–1744) was an early 18th-century English painter best known for her portraits.
Katharina, or Catharina Rozee, was a Dutch Golden Age artist. She is remembered for her ability to create exceptionally realistic images in the medium of embroidery.
Pieter Verhoek, was a Dutch Golden Age poet and marble painter.
Florent le Comte (1655–1712), was a French writer and engraver.
The Lives of Dutch painters and paintresses, or De levens-beschryvingen der Nederlandsche konst-schilders en konst-schilderessen, as it was originally known in Dutch, is a series of artist biographies with engraved portraits written by the 18th-century painter Jacob Campo Weyerman. It was published in four volumes as a sequel to Arnold Houbraken's own list of biographies known as the Schouburgh. The first volume appeared in 1729, and the last volume was published in 1769. This work is considered to be a very important source of information on 17th-century artists of the Netherlands, specifically those artists who worked in The Hague and in London.
Simon Hardimé (1672–1737) was a Flemish painter of mixed Walloon and Flemish descent. He is known for his paintings of flowers. He trained in Antwerp and later worked for a few years in the Dutch Republic. He then moved to London where he remained the rest of his life. His patrons included the bourgeoisie in Brussels and Antwerp and aristocrats in the Netherlands and England.
Ferdinand van Kessel, was a Flemish Baroque painter known for his landscapes, still lifes and genre pieces with monkeys.
Arnold Frans Rubens or Rubbens (1687–1719) was a Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in cabinet pictures of landscapes and battle scenes. He also painted some biblical subjects and genre scenes.
Jan Baptist de Crépu or Jean Baptiste de Crépu was a Walloon officer in the Spanish service and a flower painter who after retiring from military service operated a workshop in Antwerp. He trained the flower painters Simon Hardimé and Jan Baptist Bosschaert.
Pieter Hardimé was a Flemish painter known for his paintings of flowers. He trained in Antwerp and later moved to the Dutch Republic where he worked in The Hague. He was active as a decorative painter of flowers for wall and ceiling decorations, often in collaboration with Mattheus Terwesten.
