1701 in art

Events from the year 1701 in art.

Events

November – Philippe Bertrand becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
December 31 – Pierre Gobert becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
13-year-old François Lemoyne becomes a member of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
Peter Strudel becomes Reichsfreiherr and is appointed the director of the landscape academy in Vienna.
A sculptured life-size series on the Danse Macabre theme is moved to the old Neustädter Kirchhoff following a fire at the palace of Duke George in Dresden.

April 28 – Françoise Basseporte, French court painter (died 1780)
May 29 – Georg Friedrich Strass, Alsatian jeweler and inventor of imitation gemstones and the rhinestone (died 1773)
June 4 – Theodoor Verhaegen, sculptor from the Southern Netherlands (died 1759)
November 5 – Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (died 1785)
December 16 – Olof Arenius, Swedish portrait painter (died 1766)
December 21 – Guillaume Taraval, Swedish painter of French descent (died 1750)
date unknown
- Jan George Freezen, German portrait painter (died 1775)
- Thomas Hudson, English portrait painter (died 1779)
- Matthew Pilkington, Irish art historian and satirist (died 1774)
- José Romeo, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (died 1722)

January 1 – Henri Gascar, French painter (born 1635)
March 28 – Domenico Guidi, sculptor (born 1625)
May 8 – Jacob de Heusch, painter (born 1656)
June 29 – Pieter Mulier II, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1637)
July 16 – Justus Danckerts, Dutch engraver (born 1635)
July 24 – John Bushnell, English sculptor (date of birth unknown)
date unknown – Jacob Gillig, Dutch Golden Age painter of still lifes, usually of fish, as well as portraits (born 1636)