1679 in art

Events

Works

• François de Troy – Portrait of Nils Bielke
• Cornelius Jansen – Memorial painting of Isaac Bargrave in Canterbury Cathedral
• Jan van Kessel – ''Portrait of a family in a garden''

Publications

• First part of Jieziyuan Huazhuan, a manual on landscape painting, published in China

Births

• January 27 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter
• April 2 - Marcellus Laroon the Younger, English painter and draughtsman
• April 24 - Francesco Mancini, Italian painter
• date unknown
• *Elias Baeck, German painter and engraver
• *Giuseppe Dallamano, Italian painter of quadratura in Turin
• *Francesco Fernandi, Italian painter

Deaths

• January 23 – Girolamo Forabosco, Italian painter
• January 29 – Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter of portraitures, altarpieces and religious works
• February 3 – Jan Steen, Dutch genre painter
• February 27 – Joan Carlile, English professional portrait painter
• March 27 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch flower painter born at Frankfurt
• April 18 - John Verelst Anglo-Dutch artist
• April 22 – Giovanni Battista Passeri, Italian painter of genre and still life paintings
• June 15 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter and etcher
• October - Barent Avercamp, Dutch painter
• December
• *Jan van de Cappelle, Dutch Golden Age painter of seascapes and winter landscapes
• *Jan Victors, Dutch painter of subjects from the Bible
• date unknown
• *Baldassare Bianchi, Italian painter of the Baroque period
• *Tomas de Aguiar, Spanish painter of the Baroque period
• *Josse de Corte, French sculptor
• *Felipe Diricksen, Spanish Baroque painter primarily of portraits and religious paintings
• *Robert Streater, English landscape, history, still-life, and portrait artist, architectural painter and etcher