1688 in art
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 – Minerva teaching the Rhodians sculpture
- Willem van de Velde the Younger – The Fleet at Sea
- Willem van Mieris – ''A Seated Man''
Births
- March 16 – Anna Maria Garthwaite, English textile designer
- April 15 – Johann Georg Bergmüller, Bavarian painter of frescoes, of the Baroque
- April 28 – Giacomo Boni, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period
- May 6 – Charles Parrocel, French painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunt paintings
- July 19 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the imperial court
- September 6 – Antonio Corradini, Venetian Rococo sculptor
- September 12 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Bohemian sculptor
- October 29 – Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver
- November 21 – Antonio Visentini, Italian designer, painter and engraver date unknown
- * Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, French line-engraver
- * François Dumont, French sculptor
- * Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna, Italian quadratura painter
- * José de Ibarra, Mexican painter
- * Ercole Graziani the Younger, Italian painter
- * Edme Jeaurat, French engraver
- * Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor
- * François Lemoyne, French Rococo painter
- * Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor
- * Gao Xiang, Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou
Deaths
- February 11 – Cesare Gennari, Italian painter
- March 9 – Claude Mellan, French engraver and painter
- April 3 – Cosimo Fancelli, Italian sculptor
- October 4 – Philips Koninck, Dutch landscape painter
- October 13 – Pedro de Mena, Spanish sculptor
- October 14 – Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter
- December 8 – Thomas Flatman, English poet and miniature painter date unknown
- * Giovanni Battista Benaschi, Italian painter and engraver active in the late-Renaissance period
- * Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, Spanish painter
- * Carlo Cane, Italian painter