1687 in art
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Events from the year 1687 in art.
Events
- September 26 â An Ottoman Turk ammunition dump inside the Parthenon at Athens is ignited by Venetian bombardment. The resulting explosion severely damages the building and its sculptures.
Paintings
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- Godfrey Kneller â The Chinese Convert
- Carlo Maratta â Madonna and Child with St. Stanislaus Kostka (Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, Rome)
- Willem van de Velde â The 'Gouden Leeuw' at the Battle of the Texel, 21 August 1673
- Alida Withoos â Pineapple (painting of the first pineapple bred in Europe; not extant)
Births
- April 13 â Sigismund Streit, German merchant and patron of the arts (died 1775)
- June 6 â Giambattista Pittoni, Italian painter of religious, historical, and mythological subjects (died 1767)
- date unknown
- Pietro Anderlini, Italian painter of the Rococo period (died 1755)
- Jean Duvivier, French medallist (died 1761)
- Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi, Ottoman calligrapher (died 1756)
- Gaetano Fanti, Italian fresco painter (died 1759)
- Thomas-Joachim Hébert, French ébéniste and furniture designer (died 1773)
- Jin Nong, Chinese painter of mei blossoms, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (died 1763/1764)
- Arnold Frans Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter specialized in cabinet pictures of landscapes and battle scenes (died 1719)
- Huang Shen, Chinese painter (died 1772)
- Pieter Vanderlyn, American colonial painter (died 1778)
- Jacob van Huysum, Dutch botanical artist (died 1740)
Deaths
- February 3 â Bernhard Keil, Danish painter (born 1624)
- June â Juriaen van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1632)
- September 10 â Willem Wissing, Dutch portrait artist (born 1656)
- October 18 â Pietro Liberi, Italian painter nicknamed il Libertino (born 1605)
- November 18 â Anton Janson, Dutch typographer and printmaker (born 1620)
- date unknown
- Samuel Bernard, French miniature painter and engraver (born 1615)
- Giacomo di Castro, Italian painter (born 1624)
- François Collignon, French engraver, print-seller and publisher (born 1609)
- Angelo Michele Colonna, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1604)
- Nicolas Frémery, French sculptor (date of birth unknown)
- Simon de Leal Leon, Spanish painter (born 1610)
- Marco Liberi, Italian painter of mythologic and historic cabinet paintings (born 1640)
- Crestano Menarola, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1605))
- Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish Baroque engraver (born 1619)
- Francesco Rosa, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)