1703 in art explained

Events from the year 1703 in art.

Events

• May – The Cabin of Peter the Great is constructed in three days,^[1] by soldiers of the Semyonovsky Regiment.^[2] Its wooden walls are painted with red oil to resemble brick, and the rooms come to be known as the "red chambers".
• Pierre Le Gros the Younger completes the tomb of Cardinal Girolamo Casanate in the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Rome.

Paintings

• Nicolas de Largillière – La belle Strasbourgeoise
• Sebastiano Ricci – Rape of the Sabine Women
• Adriaen van der Werff – Jesus Laid in the Tomb
• Lancelot Volders – Group portrait of the Leuven justices

Births

• February 18 – Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (died 1765)^[3]
• September 29 – François Boucher, French Rococo painter, engraver and designer (died 1770)^[4]
• date unknown
  • Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English sculptor (died 1781)
  • Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (died 1778)
  • Gaetano Sabatini, Italian draftsman and painter (died 1734)
  • Andrea Soldi, Italian portrait painter working in London (died 1771)
  • William Taverner, English judge and landscape artist (died 1772)

Deaths

• March 16 – Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter (born 1645)^[5]
• March 30 – Lazzaro Baldi, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome (born 1624)
• April 8 – Domenico Piola, Genoese painter (born 1627)
• May 3 – Eglon van der Neer, Dutch painter of portraits and landscapes (born 1634)
• July 26 – Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family (born 1640)
• October 13 – Marie Courtois, French miniature painter (born 1655)
• December 29 – Pierre Monier, French painter, winner of the Prix de Rome (born 1639)^[6]
• date unknown
  • Sébastien Barras, French painter and engraver (born 1653)
  • Mosen Vicente Bru, Spanish painter (born 1682)
  • Biagio Falcieri, Italian painter of the Baroque era (born 1628)
  • Giuseppe Nuvolone, Italian painter active mainly in Milan, Brescia, and Cremona (born 1619)
  • Bogdan Saltanov, Armenian-born Russian painter (born 1630s)
  • Jan Siberechts, Flemish painter (born 1627)
  • Matthias Withoos, Dutch painter of still lifes and city scenes (born 1627)
• probable (or 1704) – Pompeo Ghitti, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1631)

Notes and References

1. Explorations in St Petersburg and Saint Petersburg: Museums, Palaces, and Historic Collections say 1703; Petriva dates it to 1707
2. The Companion Guide to St Petersburg
3. Book: Bulletin. 1996. City Art Museum of St. Louis. 31.
4. Book: William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck Duke of Portland. Charles Fairfax Murray. Catalogue of the Pictures Belonging to His Grace the Duke of Portland: At Welbeck Abbey, and in London. 1894. 1894. Pr. at the Chiswick Press. 165.
5. Book: Delia. Gaze. Maja. Mihajlovic. Leanda. Shrimpton. Dictionary of women artists. London. Fitzroy Dearborn. 1997. 462. 978-1-88496-421-3.
6. [Émile Bellier de La Chavignerie]