Events from the year 1709 in art.

Events

• The Baroque church of Santa María Magdalena, Seville, is completed.

Paintings

• Paolo Baronni – Frescoes in the Basilica of St Denis.
• Giuseppe Maria Crespi – The Flea.
• Sir Godfrey Kneller Portraits of Admirals Sir John Jennings and Sir Stafford Fairborne.
• Kanō Tsunenobu – Portrait of a Japanese official.

Births

• March 22 – Giuseppe Zais, Italian painter of landscapes (vedutisti) (died 1784)
• June 11 – Joachim Martin Falbe, German portrait painter (died 1782)
• December 24 – Johann Evangelist Holzer, Austrian-German painter (died 1740)
• date unknown
  • Giuseppe Angeli, Italian painter of the late-baroque active mainly in Venice (died 1798)
  • Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver (died 1761)
  • John Cheere, English sculptor (died 1787)
  • Johann Michael Feuchtmayer, German stucco sculptor and plasterer (died 1772)
  • Jean Girardet, French painter of portrait miniatures (died 1778)
  • Violante Beatrice Siries, Italian painter (died 1783)

Deaths

• April 2 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Italian painter (born 1639)
• April 5 – Roger de Piles, French painter, engraver, art critic and diplomat (born 1635)
• August 31 – Andrea Pozzo, Italian Baroque architect, decorator, stage designer, painter, and art theoretician (born 1642)
• September – Thomas Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (born 1661)
• December 7 – Meindert Hobbema, Dutch landscape painter (born 1638)
• date unknown
  • Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles, French engraver, painter, and collector (born 1650)
  • Geronimo de Bobadilla, Spanish painter (born 1630)
  • Antonio Franchi, Italian painter active mainly in Florence and Lucca (born 1638)
  • Bartolomeo Guidobono, Italian painter, active mainly in Northern Italy (born 1654)
  • Henry Gyles, English glass painter (born 1640)
  • Johan Teyler, Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver (born 1648)
  • Yu Zhiding, Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty (born 1647)