1688 in art
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Events from the year 1688 in art.
Events
- Matthias Steinl becomes ivory engraver at the imperial court in Vienna.
- The Equestrian statue of Christian V by French sculptor Abraham-César Lamoureux is unveiled on Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen.
Paintings
- René-Antoine Houasse â Minerva teaching the Rhodians sculpture (Palace of Versailles)
- Willem van de Velde the Younger â The Fleet at Sea
- Willem van Mieris â A Seated Man
Births
- March 16 â Anna Maria Garthwaite, English textile designer (died 1763)
- April 15 â Johann Georg Bergmüller, Bavarian painter of frescoes, of the Baroque (died 1762)
- April 28 â Giacomo Boni, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1766)
- May 6 â Charles Parrocel, French painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunt paintings (died 1752)
- July 19 â Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the imperial court (died 1766)
- September 6 â Antonio Corradini, Venetian Rococo sculptor (died 1752)
- September 12 â Ferdinand Brokoff, Bohemian sculptor (died 1731)
- October 29 â Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver (died 1723)
- November 21 â Antonio Visentini, Italian designer, painter and engraver (died 1782)
- date unknown
- Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, French line-engraver (died 1754)
- François Dumont, French sculptor (died 1726)
- Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna, Italian quadratura painter (died 1774)
- José de Ibarra, Mexican painter (died 1756)
- Ercole Graziani the Younger, Italian painter (died 1765)
- Edme Jeaurat, French engraver (died 1738)
- Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (died 1771)
- François Lemoyne, French Rococo painter (died 1737)
- Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (died 1763)
- Gao Xiang, Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (died 1753)
Deaths
- February 11 â Cesare Gennari, Italian painter (born 1641)
- March 9 â Claude Mellan, French engraver and painter (born 1598)
- April 3 â Cosimo Fancelli, Italian sculptor (born 1620)
- October 4 â Philips Koninck, Dutch landscape painter (born 1619)
- October 13 â Pedro de Mena, Spanish sculptor (born 1628)
- October 14 â Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (born 1606)
- December 8 â Thomas Flatman, English poet and miniature painter (born 1635)
- date unknown
- Giovanni Battista Benaschi, Italian painter and engraver active in the late-Renaissance period (born 1636)
- Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, Spanish painter (born 1638)
- Carlo Cane, Italian painter (born 1618)