Antoine Watteau
Nicola Grassi
Henri Millot
Pierre Gobert
Louis Tocqué
What happened in 1720 (from Wikipedia)
January–June
- February 11 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm (Great Northern War).
- February 17 – Spain signs the Treaty of The Hague, ending the War of the Quadruple Alliance.
- February 29 – Queen Ulrike Eleonora of Sweden resigns to let her husband Frederick I take over as king of Sweden.
July–December
- July 12 – The Lords Justice of the UK attempt to curb some of the excesses of the stock markets during the South Sea bubble. They dissolved a number of petitions for patents and charters, and abolished more than 80 joint-stock companies of dubious merit. According to Charles MacKay, this had little effect on the creation of "Bubbles", ephemeral joint-stock companies created during the hysteria of the times.[2]
- September – South Sea Bubble: The English stock market crashes with dropping prices for stock in The South Sea Company, an English company granted a monopoly to trade with South America.
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