Events from the year1726 in art.

• A silver statue of the Annunciation is sculpted inAugsburg forMariánská Týnice, on the order of Abbot Eugen Tittl; it was later melted down for coins, along with the rest of the church's treasures.

• Elias Gottlob Haussmann –Gottfried Reiche
• Sebastiano Ricci
  • Moses make water gush from the rock
  • Susanna in front of Daniel
• Johann Heinrich Tischbein –Portrait of the Artist's first Wife, Marie Sophie Robert

• February 7 –Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (died1766)^[1]
• March 24 –Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (died1764)
• April 18 (baptised) –François-Thomas Germain, French silversmith (died1791)
• May 20 –Francis Cotes, English painter (died1770)
• August 24 -Peter Cramer, Danish book illustrator, decorative and theatrical painter (died1782)
• October 15 –Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (died1778)
• October 16 –Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (died1801)
• November 30 –Jacques Aliamet, French engraver (died1788)
• date unknown
  • John Baker, English flower painter (died1771)
  • Michel-Bruno Bellengé, French painter (died1793)
  • Giovanni Battista Brostoloni, Italian engraver (diedunknown)
  • Gabriel François Doyen, French painter (died1806)
  • Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese painter and printmaker in theukiyo-e style (died1792)^[2]
  • François-Gaspard Teuné, Frenchébéniste (cabinet-maker) (died1788)
  • Antonio Zucchi, Italian painter of theNeoclassic period (died1795)
• probable
  • Odvardt Helmoldt von Lode, Danish painter and engraver (died1757)

• February 18 –Jacques Carrey, French painter and draughtsman (born1649)
• April 13 –Antonio Palomino, Spanish painter, writer on art theory, and biographer of artists (born1653)
• August 13 –Anthoni Schoonjans,Belgian painter (born1655)
• October 10 –Tommaso Redi, Italian painter, active in his nativeFlorence (born1665)
• November 15 –Giacomo del Po, Italian painter of emblematical andallegorical subjects (born1654)
• November 22 –Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter born inFlorence (born1652)
• December 14 –François Dumont, French sculptor (born1688)
• date unknown
  • Teodoro Ardemans, Spanish architect and painter (bornunknown)
  • François Barois, French sculptor (born1656)
  • Antonio Bellucci (or Antonijus Belutis), painter from Treviso (born1654)
  • Jiao Bingzhen, Chinese painter of theQing dynasty (born1689)
  • Gregorio De Ferrari, Italian painter of theGenoese school (born1647)
  • Girolamo Gatti, Italian painter (born1682)
  • Sébastien Slodtz, French sculptor (born1655)
  • Pier Lorenzo Spoleti, Italian painter of portraits and reproductions of old masters (born1680)

• 1726 in the arts
• Years of the 18th century in art
• 1720s in art

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