title: 1727 in art
text: # 1727 in art
  
  Events from the year 1727 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Pierre Subleyras, a Provençal painter, wins the Prix de Rome at the age of 28.
  
  ## Paintings
  
  * Canaletto
     * The Stonemason's Yard (Campo S. Vidal and Santa Maria della Carità, Venice) (approximate date)
     * Venice: S. Geremia and the Entrance to the Cannaregio (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
  * Balthasar Denner – Portrait of George Frideric Handel
  * Panagiotis Doxaras – Ceiling of Church of Saint Spyridon, Corfu
  * Charles Jervas – Portrait of Queen Caroline of Ansbach
  * Giovanni Battista Pittoni – Approximate date
     * Allegorical Tomb for Isaac Newton
     * Frescoes with scenes from the life of Diana, palazzetto Widman, Bagnoli di Sopra
  * Sebastiano Ricci
     * Agar in the desert
     * Ecstasy of St. Teresa
     * Jacob blesses the sons of Joseph
     * Moses saved from the waters
     * Rebecca and Eliazer at the well
     * Saint Gaetano heals the Sick
  * Sir James Thornhill – Painted Hall of Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich (1707–27)
  
  ## Births
  
  * April 20 – Josef Jáchym Redelmayer, Czech painter, fresco painter and theater decorator (died 1788)
  * May 14 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (died 1788)
  * May 18/19 – Felix Ivo Leicher, Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works (died 1812)
  * August 30 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and printmaker in etching (died 1804)
  * December 14 – François-Hubert Drouais, French painter (died 1775)
  * date unknown
     * Don Manuel Alvarez, Spanish sculptor (died 1797)
     * Ivan Argunov, Russian painter (died 1802)
     * Pietro Campana, Spanish engraver (died 1765)
     * Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, Italian painter and a younger brother of Giacomo Casanova (died 1803)
     * Mason Chamberlin, English portrait painter (died 1787)
     * Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (died 1785)
     * William Elliott, English engraver (died 1766)
     * Jean-Claude Richard, French painter and engraver (died 1791)
     * Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver (died 1812)
  * probable
     * Antonio Baratta, Italian designer and engraver (death unknown)
     * George Hepplewhite, English furniture designer (died 1786)
     * Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (died 1760)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January 5 - Giovanni Antonio Burrini, Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style (born 1656)
  * February 6 – Charles Boit, Swedish painter in vitreous enamels (born 1662)
  * April 29 – François Coudray, French sculptor (born 1678)
  * May 18 – Norbert Roettiers, Flemish engraver (born 1665)
  * August 27 – Aert de Gelder, Dutch artist in the tradition of Rembrandt (born 1645)
  * September 8 – Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1654)
  * October – Michiel Carree, Dutch painter (born 1657)
  * date unknown
     * Claude Duflos, French engraver (born 1665)
     * Alessio Erardi, Maltese painter (born 1669)
     * Pietro Erardi, Maltese chaplain and painter (born 1644)
     * Perpète Evrard, Flemish painter of portraits and miniatures (born 1662)
     * Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, art historian (born 1660)
     * Andrés Pérez, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1660)
     * Pablo González Velázquez, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1664)
     * Matthijs Wulfraet, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1648)
     * Jan van der Vaardt, Dutch painter of portraits, landscapes and trompe-l'œil (born 1650)
  