1714 in art

Events from the year 1714 in art.

Events

Charles Jervas – Portrait of Alexander Pope
Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of Robert Harley as Lord High Treasurer
Johann Michael Rottmayr – Coronation of Our Lady (fresco on dome of St. Peter's Church, Vienna)

January 26 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (died 1785)
March 6 – Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, French painter, drawer and administrator (died 1789)
March 25 – Friedrich Christian Glume, German sculptor (died 1752)
August 1 – Richard Wilson, landscape painter (died 1782)
August 14 – Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (died 1789)
August 28 – Jean-Baptiste Descamps, French writer and painter of village scenes (died 1791)
November – Pierre-François Brice, Belgian painter (died 1794)
date unknown
- Philippe Caffieri, sculptor (died 1774)
- Étienne Fessard, French engraver (died 1774)
- Thomas Johnson, wood carver and furniture maker (died 1778)
- Anna Morandi Manzolini, sculptor in wax (died 1774)
- Robert Taylor, stonemason, sculptor, and architect (died 1788)

May – Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor and architect in the Petrine Baroque style (born 1664)
May 11 – Pierre Le Gros the Elder, French sculptor for the Versailles (born 1629)
August 20 – Cristóbal de Villalpando, Mexican painter (born 1649)
October 4 – Peter Strudel, Austrian sculptor and painter (born 1660)
November 2 – Giuseppe Passeri, Italian painter, active in his native city of Rome (born 1654)
date unknown
- Antonio Calza, Italian painter of historical and battle-scenes (born 1658)
- Niccolò Cassana, Venetian portrait painter working in London (born 1659)
- Giovanni Battista Cimaroli, Italian painter of landscapes (born 1653)
- Jean-Jacques Clérion, French sculptor (born 1637)
- Filippo Maria Galletti, Italian painter of religious works and a Theatine priest (born 1636)
- Gennaro Greco, Italian, also known as "Il Mascacotta", veduta painter (born 1663)
- Giovanni Moneri, Italian painter (born 1637)

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