1676 in art

Events

• December 10 - Giuseppe Ghezzi exhibits a number of privately owned works by Venetian masters, borrowed from their owners, in the cloisters of San Salvatore in Rome.
• The portraitist Godfrey Kneller, together with his brother Johann Zacharias, moves from Germany to London, where he settles.

Works

• Claude Lorrain - Aeneas taking leave of Dido in Carthage
• Grinling Gibbons - Statue of King Charles II in Roman costume
• Simon Ushakov - ''Theodore Stratelates''

Births

• February 2 - Francesco Maria Raineri, Italian sculptor of battle scenes, landscapes, and veduta with historical or mythologic figures
• April 24 - Johann Georg Beck, German engraver
• June 5 - Marco Ricci, Italian veduta painter
• date unknown
• *Pierre-Jacques Cazes, French historical painter
• *Sarah Hoadly, English portrait painter
• *Théobald Michau, Flemish painter
• *Jeong Seon, Korean landscape painter

Deaths

• February 14 - Abraham Bosse, French artist, printmaker in etching, and watercolour
• May 20? - Jacques Courtois, French painter
• August 5 - Pierre Patel, French Baroque era painter
• September - Pieter de Keyser, Dutch Golden Age sculptor and architect
• October 13 - Juan de Arellano, Spanish painter date unknown
• *Salvatore Castiglione, Italian painter of landscapes and pastoral subjects
• *Giovan Battista Langetti, Italian painter
• *Pierre Prieur, French enamel painter
• *Santo Rinaldi, Italian painter of battle scenes, landscapes, and vedute
• *Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella, French engraver
• *Domenicus van Tol, Dutch Golden Age painter
• probable
• *Bartolommeo Coriolano, Italian engraver
• *Abel Schrøder, Danish woodcarver