1698 in art

Events

• September – Maximilian II Emanuel, Prince-Elector of Bavaria, purchases Rubens' Adoration of the Magi from Gijsbert van Ceulen.

Works

• Nicolò Fumo – Fallen Christ
• Hyacinthe Rigaud – ''Self-portrait in a turban''

Births

• May 17 – Gio Nicola Buhagiar, Maltese painter
• May 29 – Edmé Bouchardon, French sculptor
• September 15 – Pier Francesco Guala, Italian painter active for the most part in the region of his place of birth, Casale Monferrato
• October 13 – Giacomo Ceruti, Italian painter of peasants
• October 30 – Paul Troger, Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker date unknown
• * Benoît Audran the Younger, French engraver
• * Gaudenzio Botti, Italian painter, mainly active in Brescia
• * Felice Cappelletti, Italian painter active in Verona
• * Antonio David, Italian portrait painter, especially of the House of Stuart
• * Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor
• * Louis de Moni, Dutch genre painter
• * Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer, German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School
• * Johann Preissler, engraver probable
• * Giovanni Francesco Braccioli, Italian painter, mainly active in Ferrara
• * Susanna Drury, Irish painter chiefly noted for her watercolours

Deaths

• April 27 – Jacopo Chiavistelli, Italian painter of quadratura
• June 1 – Maurelio Scanavini, Italian painter, mainly active in Ferrara
• June 10 – Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch artist
• September 21 – Catherine Duchemin, French flower and fruit painter
• October 6 – Johann Carl Loth, German painter active in Venice
• November – Rombout Verhulst, sculptor from Brabant
• December 16 – Simone Pignoni, Italian painter of both licentious then later pious works date unknown
• * Francesco Barbieri, Italian painter
• * Johann Anton Eismann, Austrian painter
• * Teresa Maria Languasco, Italian painter and a monk
• * Hâfiz Osman, Ottoman calligrapher
• * Pieter Peutemans, Dutch Golden Age painter
• * Zha Shibiao, landscape painter and calligrapher from Anhui