1699 in art

Events

• The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture holds the first of a series of salons at the Louvre Palace.

Paintings

• Alexis Simon Belle – Allegorical portrait of James Francis Edward Stuart and his sister Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart
• Alexandre-François Desportes – The artist as a hunter
• Willem Frederiksz van Royen – The Carrot
• The Kangxi Emperor of China at age 45
• Monastery of Moisei, Romania

Births

• February 15 – Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, Italian Rococo sculptor
• February 17 – Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Prussian painter and architect
• March 26 – Hubert-François Gravelot, French illustrator
• May 28 – Laurent Cars, French designer and engraver
• October – Giuseppe Grisoni, Italian painter
• November 2 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter
• November 25 – Pierre Subleyras, French painter, active during the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic period date unknown
• * Giovanni Antonio Capello, Italian painter
• * Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, Italian painter, 1756 co-founder of the Venetian Academy
• * Giuseppe Marchesi, Italian painter active mainly in Bologna
• * Giuseppe Nogari, Venetian painter of the Rococo, where he painted mainly half-body portraits
• * Alexis Peyrotte, French decorator painter
• * Giovanni Agostino Ratti, Italian cabinet painter, engraver, and constructed scenography
• * Ivan Vishnyakov, Russian painter probable – Stefano Pozzi, Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator probable – Hristofor Zhefarovich, Serbian and Bulgarian painter, engraver and writer

Deaths

• January 3 – Mattia Preti, Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta
• May – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish landscape painter
• May 22 – Giovanni Battista Buonocore, Italian painter
• October 8 – Mary Beale, English portrait painter date unknown
• * Tommaso Misciroli, Italian painter from Faenza
• * Pandolfo Reschi, Polish-born Italian painter of battle scenes and landscapes
• * Pedro Roldán, Spanish sculptor possible – Joannes van der Brugghen, Flemish Baroque painter and engraver