1681 in art

Works

• Caius Gabriel Cibber - Statue of Charles II, Soho Square
• Jean Cotelle - Marriage at Cana
• Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Christ appearing to Mary Magdalen
• Carlo Maratta - ''Apollo Chasing Daphne''

Births

• March 30 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish art collector, painter, draughtsman, engraver
• April 9 – Nicolas Edelinck, French-born engraver, son of Gerard Edelinck
• April 18 – Girolamo Donnini, Italian painter of the Baroque period
• May 23 – Jacopo Zoboli, Italian etcher and painter of altarpieces and portraits
• December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer
• date unknown
• *Francesco Conti, Italian Venetian painter
• *Johann Jakob Frey the Elder, Swiss engraver
• *Peter Monamy, English marine painter
• *Girolamo Odam, Italian painter, pastel portraitist and landscape artist, as well as wood engraver

Deaths

• February 11 – Gerard Soest, Dutch painter, father of Gerard ter Borch
• March 12
• *Giuseppe Bonati, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Ferrara
• *Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch genre and portrait painter
• April 12 – Pietro Paolini, Italian painter of still lifes and cabinet pictures
• April 23 - Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter in the Baroque style
• June 1 – Cornelis Saftleven, Dutch painter of the Baroque period
• November 11 - Jacob Marrel, Dutch still-life painter
• December 8 – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter
• December 10 - Gaspard Marsy, French sculptor
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, Italian painter from the Bolognese School
• *Pierfrancesco Cittadini, Italian painter of still life
• *Giacinto Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period
• *Albrecht Kauw, Swiss still-life painter, cartographer and a painter of vedute
• *Juan Rizi, Spanish painter
• *Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting