1690 in art

Events

• Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer leaves France for England, where he produces a series of decorative panels for Montagu House, Bloomsbury.
• Approximate date – Dutch Golden Age artist Gerard de Lairesse goes blind due to congenital syphilis and gives up painting in favour of art theory.

Paintings

• Ludolf Bakhuizen – Ships in distress in raging storm
• Richard Brakenburgh – Peasant scenes
• Melchior d'Hondecoeter – De Menagerie
• Hishikawa Moronobu – Beauty looking back
• Charles Le Brun – Adoration of the Shepherds
• Ricardo do Pilar – Christ in Martyrdom
• Jan Siberechts – Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames
• Jan van Kessel the Younger – Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark
• Spinoza – Virgin del Carmen and the Child Jesus
• Altarpiece of Strandebarm Church in Norway

Births

• January 22 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter
• September 23 – Giuseppe Bazzani, Italian Rococo painter probable
• * Lorenzo Fratellini, Italian painter of miniature portraits
• * Claes Lang, Finnish painter
• * Philip Mercier, portrait painter
• * Michael Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter
• * Ivan Nikitich Nikitin, Russian painter of portraits and battles
• * Orazio Solimena, Italian painter

Deaths

• February 22 – Charles Le Brun, French painter
• March
• * Bendix Grodtschilling, Danish painter and carpenter
• * Abraham van Beijeren, Dutch painter
• March 17 – Jan van Mieris, Dutch painter
• April 25 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter
• June 11 - Frederik Bloemaert, Dutch engraver
• July 15 – Carlo Antonio Bussi, Swiss painter
• October 15
• * Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter
• * Adam Frans van der Meulen, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in battle scenes date unknown
• * Giacomo Barri, Italian painter and printmaker
• * Benjamin Block, German–Hungarian portrait painter
• * Abraham Brueghel, Flemish painter from the famous Brueghel family of artists
• * Antonio Castrejon, Spanish painter
• * Tommaso Costa, Italian painter
• * Giovanni Stefano Danedi, Italian painter of frescoes
• * Francesco di Maria, Italian painter active mainly in Naples
• * Frederick Kerseboom, German painter
• * Francesco Pianta, Italian sculptor
• * Herman Verelst, Dutch Golden Age portrait and still life painter
• * Yun Shouping, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty probable
• * Pietro Lucatelli, Italian painter active in Rome
• * Wang Wu, Chinese painter and poet of the Qing Dynasty