1706 in art

Events from the year 1706 in art.

Events

Engraver Sébastien Leclerc is granted the title of cavaliere Romano by the Pope.

Jan Brokoff – Statue of St Joseph (on the Charles Bridge in Prague; later replaced)
Giovanni Battista Parodi – The Miracle of the Chains of Peter (ceiling fresco in San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome)

January 3 – Johann Caspar Füssli, portrait painter (died 1782)
January 17 – George Michael Moser, Swiss-born enameller (died 1783)
February 12 – Johann Joseph Christian, German Baroque sculptor and woodcarver (died 1777)
February 26 – Jan Antonín Vocásek, Czech Baroque still-life painter (died 1757)
March 4 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect (died 1759)
March 12 – Johan Pasch, Swedish painter (died 1769)
March 23 – Anna Maria Barbara Abesch, Swiss reverse glass painter (died 1773)
April 1 – Christian Friedrich Boetius, German engraver (died 1782)
April 30 – Philipp Jakob Straub, Austrian sculptor (died 1774)
June 15 – Johann Joachim Kändler, German modeller of Meissen porcelain in a rococo style (died 1775)
September 8 – Antoine de Favray, French portrait painter (died 1798)
date unknown
- Sabina Auffenwerth, German potter (died 1782)
- Johan Backman, Finnish painter (died 1768)
- George Bickham the Younger, English etcher, engraver, printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists (died 1771)
- Simon François Ravenet, French engraver (died 1774)
- Pieter Tanjé, engraver from the Northern Netherlands (died 1761)
- Miguel Verdiguier, French sculptor (died 1796)