1720 in art

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Paintings

Antoine Watteau, L'Enseigne de Gersaint (1720): In one of Watteau's last paintings, the portrait of Louis XIV and his own artworks are being packed away.

• Antoine Watteau – The shop sign of Gersaint

Births

• January 19 – John Boydell, engraver (d. 1804)
• January 20 – Bernardo Bellotto, Italian urban landscape painter or vedutista, and printmaker in etching (d. 1780)
• October 4 – Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian artist (d. 1778)
• date unknown
  • Anton Giuseppe Barbazza, Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (d. 1771)
  • Pietro Gaspari, Italian artist, known for veduta and capriccio in etchings and paintings (d. 1785)
  • Giuseppe Sanmartino, Italian sculptor during the Rococo period (d. 1793)

Deaths

• March 6 – Peter van Bloemen, Dutch painter (b. 1657)
• June 3 – Cristoforo Munari, Italian painter of the late-Baroque specializing in still life paintings (b. 1667)
• October 10 – Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor emigrated from Spain (b. 1640)
• date unknown
  • Alberto Carlieri, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (b. 1672)
  • Giovanni Agostino Cassana, Italian painter of animals and subject pictures (b. 1658)
  • Orazio Marinali, Italian late-baroque sculptor, active mainly in Veneto (b. 1643)
  • Tao Chi, Chinese landscape painter (b. 1641)