Events from the year 1727 in art.

• Pierre Subleyras, a Provençal painter, wins the Prix de Rome at the age of 28.

• Canaletto
  • The Stonemason's Yard (Campo S. Vidal and Santa Maria della Carità, Venice) (approximate date)
  • Venice: S. Geremia and the Entrance to the Cannaregio (British Royal Collection, Windsor Castle)
• Balthasar Denner – Portrait of George Frideric Handel
• Panagiotis Doxaras – Ceiling of Church of Saint Spyridon, Corfu
• Charles Jervas – Portrait of Queen Caroline of Ansbach
• Giovanni Battista Pittoni – Approximate date
  • Allegorical Tomb for Isaac Newton
  • Frescoes with scenes from the life of Diana, palazzetto Widman, Bagnoli di Sopra^[1]
• Sebastiano Ricci
  • Agar in the desert
  • Ecstasy of St. Teresa
  • Jacob blesses the sons of Joseph
  • Moses saved from the waters
  • Rebecca and Eliazer at the well
  • Saint Gaetano heals the Sick
• Sir James Thornhill – Painted Hall of Royal Hospital for Seamen, Greenwich (1707–27)^[2]

• April 20 – Josef Jáchym Redelmayer, Czech painter, fresco painter and theater decorator (died 1788)
• May 14 – Thomas Gainsborough, English artist (died 1788)
• May 18/19 – Felix Ivo Leicher, Czech-born Viennese painter of altarpieces and secular works (died 1812)
• August 30 – Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Italian painter and printmaker in etching (died 1804)
• December 14 – François-Hubert Drouais, French painter (died 1775)
• date unknown
  • Don Manuel Alvarez, Spanish sculptor (died 1797)
  • Ivan Argunov, Russian painter (died 1802)
  • Pietro Campana, Spanish engraver (died 1765)
  • Francesco Giuseppe Casanova, Italian painter and a younger brother of Giacomo Casanova (died 1803)
  • Mason Chamberlin, English portrait painter (died 1787)
  • Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (died 1785)
  • William Elliott, English engraver (died 1766)
  • Jean-Claude Richard, French painter and engraver (died 1791)
  • Giulio Traballesi, Italian designer and engraver (died 1812)
• probable
  • Antonio Baratta, Italian designer and engraver (death unknown)
  • George Hepplewhite, English furniture designer (died 1786)
  • Andrea Toresani, Italian painter and draughtsman of landscapes and portraits (died 1760)

• January 5 - Giovanni Antonio Burrini, Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style (born 1656)
• February 6 – Charles Boit, Swedish painter in vitreous enamels (born 1662)
• April 29 – François Coudray, French sculptor (born 1678)
• May 18 – Norbert Roettiers, Flemish engraver (born 1665)
• August 27 – Aert de Gelder, Dutch artist in the tradition of Rembrandt (born 1645)
• September 8 – Giuseppe Bartolomeo Chiari, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1654)
• October – Michiel Carree, Dutch painter (born 1657)
• date unknown
  • Claude Duflos, French engraver (born 1665)
  • Alessio Erardi, Maltese painter (born 1669)^[3]
  • Pietro Erardi, Maltese chaplain and painter (born 1644)^[4]
  • Perpète Evrard, Flemish painter of portraits and miniatures (born 1662)
  • Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, art historian (born 1660)
  • Andrés Pérez, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1660)
  • Pablo González Velázquez, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1664)
  • Matthijs Wulfraet, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1648)
  • Jan van der Vaardt, Dutch painter of portraits, landscapes and trompe-l'œil (born 1650)