Events from the year 1703 in art.
Events
* May – The
Cabin of Peter the Great
The cabin of Peter the Great (Russian language, Russian: ''Domik Petra I'' or ''Domik Petra Pervogo'' or ''Domik Petra Velikogo'') is a small wooden house which was the first St Petersburg "palace" of Tsar Peter the Great.
The log cabin was constr ...
is constructed in three days, by soldiers of the
Semyonovsky Regiment. 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
Girolamo Casanate (historic spelling variations include Casanata and Casanatta) (13 February 1620 in Naples – 3 March 1700 in Rome) was an Italian Cardinal.
Biography
His father, Tommaso Casanatta, was a member of the supreme council of the ...
in the
Archbasilica of St. John Lateran, Rome.
Paintings
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Nicolas de Largillière
Nicolas de Largillière (; 10 October 1656 – 20 March 1746) was a French portrait painter, born in Paris.
Biography
Early life
Largillière's father, a merchant, took him to Antwerp at the age of three. As a boy, he spent nearly two years in ...
– ''
La belle Strasbourgeoise
''La Belle Strasbourgeoise'' (''The Beautiful Strasbourg Woman'') is a 1703 painting by the French painter Nicolas de Largillière. It is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 2146.
Description and his ...
''
*
Sebastiano Ricci
Sebastiano Ricci (1 August 165915 May 1734) was an Italian painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Cortonesqu ...
– ''
Rape of the Sabine Women''
*
Adriaen van der Werff
Adriaen van der Werff (21 January 1659 – 12 November 1722) was a Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes. His brother, Pieter van der Werff (1661–1722), was his principal pupil and assistant.
Life
At the ag ...
– ''Jesus Laid in the Tomb''
*
Lancelot Volders – Group portrait of the
Leuven
Leuven (, ) or Louvain (, , ; german: link=no, Löwen ) is the capital and largest city of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is located about east of Brussels. The municipality itself comprises the historic ...
justices
Births
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February 18 –
Corrado Giaquinto, Italian Rococo painter (died
1765
Events January–March
* January 23 – Prince Joseph of Austria marries Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria in Vienna.
* January 29 – One week before his death, Mir Jafar, who had been enthroned as the Nawab of Bengal and ru ...
)
*
September 29 –
François Boucher
François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...
, French Rococo painter, engraver and designer (died
1770
Events January– March
* January 1 – The foundation of Fort George, Bombay is laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort.
* February 1 – Thomas Jefferson's home at Shadwell, Virgi ...
)
* ''date unknown''
**
Sir Henry Cheere, 1st Baronet, English
sculptor (died
1781
Events
January–March
* January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament, aged 21.
* January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens across the River Severn in Eng ...
)
**
Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford, Florentine painter (died
1778
Events
January–March
* January 18 – Third voyage of James Cook: Captain James Cook, with ships HMS ''Resolution'' and HMS ''Discovery'', first views Oahu then Kauai in the Hawaiian Islands of the Pacific Ocean, which he na ...
)
**
Gaetano Sabatini, Italian draftsman and painter (died
1734
Events
January– March
* January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Province of Georgia, Georgia in North America ...
)
**
Andrea Soldi
Andrea Soldi (1703–1771) was an Italian portraitist active in Britain.
Life
The only remaining source for this painter's early years is George Vertue, who in 1738 stated he was "about thirty-five or rather more", had been born in Florence ...
, Italian portrait painter working in London (died
1771
Events January– March
* January 5 – The Great Kalmyk (Torghut) Migration is led by Ubashi Khan, from the east bank of the Lower Volga River back to the homeland of Dzungaria, at this time under Qing Dynasty rule.
* January 9 ...
)
**
William Taverner, English judge and landscape artist (died
1772
Events January–March
* January 10 – Shah Alam II, the Mughal Emperor of India, makes a triumphant return to Delhi 15 years after having been forced to flee.
* January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Carolin ...
)
Deaths
*
March 16 –
Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter (born
1645
Events
January–March
* January 3 – The Long Parliament adopts the ''Directory for Public Worship'' in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, replacing the Book of Common Prayer (1559). Holy Days (other than Sundays) are not ...
)
*
March 30 –
Lazzaro Baldi
Lazzaro Baldi ( – 30 March 1703) was an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period active mainly in Rome. , Italian painter of the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
period, active mainly in
Rome (born
1624
Events
January–March
* January 14 – After 90 years of Ottoman occupation, Baghdad is recaptured by the Safavid Empire.
* January 22 – Korean General Yi Gwal leads an uprising of 12,000 soldiers against King Injo in wh ...
)
*
April 8
Events Pre-1600
* 217 – Roman emperor Caracalla is assassinated and is succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect, Marcus Opellius Macrinus.
* 876 – The Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul saves Baghdad from the Saffarids.
*1139 – Ro ...
–
Domenico Piola, Genoese painter (born
1627
Events
January–March
* January 26 РThe Dutch ship t Gulden Zeepaert'', skippered by Fran̤ois Thijssen, makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia.
* February 15 – The administrative rural p ...
)
*
May 3 –
Eglon van der Neer
Eglon van der Neer (1635/363 May 1703) was a Dutch painter of historical scenes, portraits and elegant, fashionable people, and later of landscapes.
Life
Van der Neer was born in Amsterdam and was probably first taught by his father, Aert ...
,
Dutch painter of portraits and landscapes (born
1634
Events
January–March
* January 12– After suspecting that he will be dismissed, Albrecht von Wallenstein, supreme commander of the Holy Roman Empire's Army, demands that his colonels sign a declaration of personal loyalty.
...
)
*
July 26 –
Gérard Audran, French
engraver of the Audran family (born
1640
Events
January–March
* January 6 – The Siege of Salses ends almost six months after it had started on June 9, 1639, with the French defenders surrendering to the Spanish attackers.
* January 17 – A naval battle over ...
)
*
October 13 –
Marie Courtois
Marie Courtois (c. 1655 – 13 October 1703) was a French miniature painter. She was a pupil of Le Brun. In 1675 she married Marc Nattier (1642–1705), a portrait painter. They were the parents of the more famous portrait painter Jean-Marc Natti ...
, French miniature painter (born
1655
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Emperor Go-Sai ascends to the throne of Japan.
* January 7 – Pope Innocent X, leader of the Roman Catholic Church and the Papal States, dies after more than 10 years of rule.
* Febr ...
)
*
December 29 –
Pierre Monier
Pierre Monier or Mosnier (17 May 1641 – 29 December 1703) was a French painter.
Mosnier was born in Blois. His father Jean Monier was also painter, and was his first teacher. In 1664 he won the inaugural Prix de Rome for his painting ''la Co ...
, French painter, winner of the
Prix de Rome (born
1639
Events
January–March
* January 14 – Connecticut's first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, is adopted.
* January 19 – Hämeenlinna ( sv, Tavastehus) is granted privileges, after it separates from the Vanaja parish, ...
)
Émile Bellier de La Chavignerie
Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie (6 December 1821, Chartres – 6 February 1871, Saint-Malo) was a French art historian.
Life
Émile was born into a bourgeois family in Chartres. He was the son of François Jean Baptiste Bellier de la Cha ...
et Louis Auvray
Louis Auvray (; 7 April 1810, in Valenciennes27 April 1890, in Paris) was a French sculptor and art critic. He was the pupil of David d'Angers and was the brother of Félix Auvray, a painter. He continued the ''Dictionnaire Général des Artistes ...
, ''Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française'', Paris, Renouard, 1882-1885, p. 132.
* ''date unknown''
**
Sébastien Barras
Sébastien Barras (1653–1703) was a French painter and engraver.
Life
Barras was born at Aix-en-Provence, in 1653. He was a pupil of Boyer d'Aguilles, and studied for some time in Rome. The first edition of the Boyer d'Aguilles Collection, p ...
, French painter and engraver (born
1653
Events
January–March
* January 3 – By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
* January– The Swiss Peasant War begins after magistrates meeting at Lucerne ...
)
**
Mosen Vicente Bru
Mosen Vicente Bru (1682–1703) was a Spanish painter. He was born at Valencia. He was the pupil of Juan Conchillos. He painted for the churches in his native city, including a ''St. Francisco de Paula'', a ''Baptism of Christ by St. John'', and ...
, Spanish painter (born
1682
Events
January–March
* January 7 – The Republic of Genoa forbids the unauthorized printing of newspapers and all handwritten newssheets; the ban is lifted after three months.
* January 12 – Scottish minister James Ren ...
)
**
Biagio Falcieri, Italian painter of the
Baroque
The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...
era (born
1628
Events
January–March
* January 19 – (26 Jumada al-Awwal 1037 A.H.) The reign of Salef-ud-din Muhammad Shahryar as the Mughal Emperor, Shahryar Mirza, comes to an end a little more than two months after the November 7 dea ...
)
**
Giuseppe Nuvolone
Giuseppe Nuvolone (1619–1703) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Milan, Brescia, and Cremona. Born in San Gimignano. He was the brother of the painter Carlo Francesco Nuvolone
Carlo Francesco Nuvolone (1608 or 1609 ...
, Italian painter active mainly in
Milan,
Brescia, and
Cremona
Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...
(born
1619
Events
January–June
* January 12 – James I of England's Banqueting House, Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire."Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Conne ...
)
**
Bogdan Saltanov
Bogdan Saltanov (russian: Богдан Салтанов; 1630s – 1703Kazaryan, 1969, asserted that in 1703 Saltanov did not die, but left Russia and returned to Persia as Russian envoy. This assumption was refuted by subsequently found archive ...
, Armenian-born Russian painter (born
1630s
The 1630s was a decade that began on January 1, 1630, and ended on December 31, 1639.
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Jan Siberechts, Flemish painter (born
1627
Events
January–March
* January 26 РThe Dutch ship t Gulden Zeepaert'', skippered by Fran̤ois Thijssen, makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia.
* February 15 – The administrative rural p ...
)
**
Matthias Withoos
Matthias Withoos (1627–1703), also known as Calzetta Bianca and Calzetti, was a Dutch painter of still lifes and city scenes, best known for the details of insects, reptiles and undergrowth in the foreground of his pictures.Seymour Slive, ...
,
Dutch painter of still lifes and city scenes (born
1627
Events
January–March
* January 26 РThe Dutch ship t Gulden Zeepaert'', skippered by Fran̤ois Thijssen, makes the first recorded sighting of the coast of South Australia.
* February 15 – The administrative rural p ...
)
* ''probable'' (or 1704) –
Pompeo Ghitti, Italian painter of
fresco
Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaste ...
es (born
1631
Events
January–March
* January 23 – Thirty Years' War: Sweden and France sign the Treaty of Bärwalde, a military alliance in which France provides funds for the Swedish army invading northern Germany.
* February 5 &ndash ...
)
References
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