1685 in art
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Events from the year 1685 in art.
Events
- (unknown)
Works
Paintings
- Richard Brakenburgh â Feast of St Nicholas
- Claudio Coello â St Dominic of Guzman (approximate date)
- Aert de Gelder â Esther and Mordecai
- Godfrey Kneller â Self-Portrait
- Andrea Pozzo - Dome at Sant'Ignazio[1]
- Simon Ushakov â The Last Supper[2]
Sculpture
- Pierre Lepautre â Faune au chevreau
Births
- March 17 â Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (died 1766)
- November 5 - Peter Angelis, French painter (died 1734)
- November 15 â Balthasar Denner, German portrait painter (died 1749)
- date unknown
- Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style (died 1768)
- Pietro Paolo Cristofari, Italian artist responsible for a number of the mosaics in St. Peter's Basilica (died 1743)
- Bernardo Germán de Llórente, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1757)
- Francesco Sleter, Italian painter active in England (died 1775)
- Jan van Gool, Dutch painter and writer (died 1763)
- probable
- William Kent, architect and designer (died 1748)
- Johann Georg Schmidt, Austrian Baroque painter (died 1748)
Deaths
- January â Herman Saftleven, Dutch painter (born 1609)
- March 25 â Nicolas Robert, French miniaturist and engraver (born 1614)
- May â Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch genre painter (born 1610)
- June 16 â Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter (born 1660)
- August 8 â Giovanni Battista Salvi or Sassoferrato, Italian painter (born 1609)
- September â Adam Colonia, Dutch painter working in England (born 1634)
- October 2 â David Teniers III, Flemish painter (born 1638)
- October 3 â Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish painter (born 1614)
- date unknown
- Li Yin, Chinese painter, poet and calligrapher (born c.1610)
- Giulio Trogli, Italian painter nicknamed il Paradosso ("the Paradox") (born 1613)
- Jan Baptist van Heil, Flemish painter (born 1604)
