1697 in art

Events from the year 1697 in art.

Events

December 13 – Tsar Peter the Great of Russia visits Dutch Republic official Jacob de Wilde in Amsterdam to view his art collection, "the beginning of the West European classical tradition in Russia"; a view of the meeting is engraved by Jacob's daughter Maria de Wilde.

March 30 – Jan Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor active in the Netherlands
April 12 – Anton Pichler, Tyrolean goldsmith and artist of engraved gems
June 22 – Pierre-Imbert Drevet, French portrait engraver
June 25 – Peter van Bleeck, portrait painter and engraver
October 28
* Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, Venetian artist famous for his landscapes, or vedute, of Venice
* Johann Gottfried Auerbach, Austrian painter
November 10 – William Hogarth, English engraver and painter credited with pioneering western sequential art date unknown
* Bernard Accama or Bernardus, Dutch historical and portrait painter, born in Friesland
* Francesco Andreini, Italian painter
* Helena Arnell, one of the first Finnish painters and few female artists
* Claude François Devosge, French sculptor and architect
* Johann Christian Fiedler, German portrait painter
* Antonio Gionima, Italian painter
* Michele Pagano, Italian painter of landscapes or vedutista
* Giovanni Battista Tagliasacchi, Italian painter of historical scenes and portraits
* Cornelis Troost – Dutch painter from Amsterdam

April 4
* Jan de Bray, Dutch painter
* Andrea Carlone, Italian painter
June 11 – Abraham Begeyn, Dutch painter of landscapes and cattle
December 31 – Lucas Faydherbe, Dutch sculptor and architect date unknown
* Ludovico Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome
* Muin Musavvir, Persian miniaturist during the Safavid period
* Mei Qing, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Qing Dynasty
* Claudine Bouzonnet-Stella, French engraver
* Giulio Cesare Venenti, Italian painter of landscapes and engraver