Events

Antoine Coypel becomes professor and rector of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture.
James Thornhill begins work on the Painted Hall of the Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich^[1] (completed 1727), probably having concluded work at Chatsworth House.^[1]

Paintings

January 11 – Giuseppe Bonito, Neapolitan painter of the Rococo period (died 1789)
January 28 (bapt.) – John Baskerville, typographer and craftsman (died 1775)
February 27 – Joseph Johann Kauffmann, Austrian painter of portraits, church decorations, and castle depictions (died 1782)
March 2 – Louis-Michel van Loo, French painter (died 1771)
May 21 – Francisco Salzillo, Spanish sculptor (died 1781)
July 8 – Jacques-Philippe Le Bas, French engraver (died 1783)
September 30 – Pietro Rotari, Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces (died 1762)
date unknown
- Joseph Badger, American portrait artist (died 1765)
- Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, French art critic and director of the official French policy in the arts (died 1781)
- William Hoare, English painter, noted for his pastels (died 1792)
- Sim Sa-jeong, Korean genre painter in the style of the Joseon period (died 1769)
- Maria Felice Tibaldi, Italian painter of portraits and historical subjects (died 1770)

February 16 – Hendrik Bary, Dutch engraver (born 1632)
February 22 – Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta (born 1646)
April 2 – Gerard Edelinck, Flemish copper-plate engraver (born 1649)
April 6 – Willem van de Velde the Younger, Dutch marine painter (born 1633)
June 15 – Antonio Verrio, Italian painter of murals, altarpieces, master gardener, active mainly in England (born c. 1636)
October 1 – Pierre Le Ber, portrait painter from Montreal (born 1669)
December 24 – Noël Coypel, French painter (born 1628)
date unknown
- Bernard Lens I, Dutch painter and writer of religious treatises (born c. 1631)
- Alessandro Mari, Italian painter of capricci and symbolical representations (born 1650)