1685 in art

Events

Works

Paintings

• Richard Brakenburgh – Feast of St Nicholas
• Claudio Coello – St Dominic of Guzman
• Aert de Gelder – Esther and Mordecai
• Godfrey Kneller – Self-Portrait
• Andrea Pozzo - Dome at Sant'Ignazio
• Simon Ushakov – ''The Last Supper''

Sculpture

• Pierre Lepautre – ''Faune au chevreau''

Births

• March 17 – Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter
• November 5 - Peter Angelis, French painter
• November 15 – Balthasar Denner, German portrait painter date unknown
• * Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style
• * Pietro Paolo Cristofari, Italian artist responsible for a number of the mosaics in St. Peter's Basilica
• * Bernardo Germán de Llórente, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque period
• * Francesco Sleter, Italian painter active in England
• * Jan van Gool, Dutch painter and writer probable
• * William Kent, architect and designer
• * Johann Georg Schmidt, Austrian Baroque painter

Deaths

• January – Herman Saftleven, Dutch painter
• March 25 – Nicolas Robert, French miniaturist and engraver
• May – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch genre painter
• June 16 – Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter
• August 8 – Giovanni Battista Salvi or Sassoferrato, Italian painter
• September – Adam Colonia, Dutch painter working in England
• October 2 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter
• October 3 – Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish painter date unknown
• * Li Yin, Chinese painter, poet and calligrapher
• * Giulio Trogli, Italian painter nicknamed il Paradosso
• * Jan Baptist van Heil, Flemish painter