Events from the year 1726 in art.

• A silver statue of the Annunciation is sculpted in Augsburg for Mariánská Týnice, on the order of Abbot Eugen Tittl; it was later melted down for coins, along with the rest of the church's treasures.

• Elias Gottlob Haussmann – Gottfried Reiche
• Sebastiano Ricci
  • Moses make water gush from the rock
  • Susanna in front of Daniel
• Johann Heinrich Tischbein – Portrait of the Artist's first Wife, Marie Sophie Robert

• February 7 – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (died 1766)^[1]
• March 24 – Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (died 1764)
• April 18 (baptised) – François-Thomas Germain, French silversmith (died 1791)
• May 20 – Francis Cotes, English painter (died 1770)
• August 24 - Peter Cramer, Danish book illustrator, decorative and theatrical painter (died 1782)
• October 15 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France (died 1778)
• October 16 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (died 1801)
• November 30 – Jacques Aliamet, French engraver (died 1788)
• date unknown
  • John Baker, English flower painter (died 1771)
  • Michel-Bruno Bellengé, French painter (died 1793)
  • Giovanni Battista Brostoloni, Italian engraver (died unknown)
  • Gabriel François Doyen, French painter (died 1806)
  • Katsukawa Shunshō, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style (died 1792)^[2]
  • François-Gaspard Teuné, French ébéniste (cabinet-maker) (died 1788)
  • Antonio Zucchi, Italian painter of the Neoclassic period (died 1795)
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  • Odvardt Helmoldt von Lode, Danish painter and engraver (died 1757)

• February 18 – Jacques Carrey, French painter and draughtsman (born 1649)
• April 13 – Antonio Palomino, Spanish painter, writer on art theory, and biographer of artists (born 1653)
• August 13 – Anthoni Schoonjans, Belgian painter (born 1655)
• October 10 – Tommaso Redi, Italian painter, active in his native Florence (born 1665)
• November 15 – Giacomo del Po, Italian painter of emblematical and allegorical subjects (born 1654)
• November 22 – Anton Domenico Gabbiani, Italian painter born in Florence (born 1652)
• December 14 – François Dumont, French sculptor (born 1688)
• date unknown
  • Teodoro Ardemans, Spanish architect and painter (born unknown)
  • François Barois, French sculptor (born 1656)
  • Antonio Bellucci (or Antonijus Belutis), painter from Treviso (born 1654)
  • Jiao Bingzhen, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty (born 1689)
  • Gregorio De Ferrari, Italian painter of the Genoese school (born 1647)
  • Girolamo Gatti, Italian painter (born 1682)
  • Sébastien Slodtz, French sculptor (born 1655)
  • Pier Lorenzo Spoleti, Italian painter of portraits and reproductions of old masters (born 1680)