1708 in art

Events

• Flemish painter and engraver Pieter Casteels III comes to work in Britain.
• Czech sculptor Ferdinand Brokoff sets up his own studio.

Paintings

• Michael Dahl – Portrait of George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie
• Antonino Grano – Frescoes in Church of Santa Maria della Pietà in Kalsa, Palermo
• Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of John Smith
• Enoch Seeman
• * Group portrait of the Bisset family
• * ''Self-portrait''

Drawings

• Portrait of Anne Hathaway by Nathaniel Curzon

Publications

• Roger de Piles – ''Cours de peinture par principes avec un balance de peintres''

Births

• January 25 – Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter
• June 20 – François-Elie Vincent, Swiss painter of portrait miniatures
• December 18 – John Collier, English caricaturist and satirist date unknown
• * Francis Hayman, English painter and illustrator
• * Giuseppe Ghedini, Italian painter and later a university professor of painting
• * Mina Kolokolnikov, Russian painter and teacher
• * Johann Jakob Zeiller, Austrian fresco painter

Deaths

• April – Abraham Storck, Dutch landscape and marine painter
• April 6 – Willem van Ingen, Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy
• April 19 – Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi, Italian woman composer and painter active in Bologna
• June 10 – Romeyn de Hooghe, Dutch engraver and caricaturist
• August 16 – Michel Corneille the Younger, French painter, etcher and engraver
• September 6 – Evert Collier, Dutch painter
• October 22 – Cesare Pronti, Italian painter of quadratura and allegorical figures
• October 26 – Johann Kerseboom, German portrait painter
• November 17 – Ludolf Bakhuysen, Dutch painter
• November 20 – Paul Strudel, Austrian sculptor, architect, engineer and painter date unknown
• * Giovanni Ventura Borghese, Italian painter
• * Francesco Ferrari, Italian painter and architect
• * Catharina Oostfries, Dutch glass painter
• * Paolo Antonio Paderna, Italian painter of Bologna
• * Jan van Kessel the Younger, Flemish painter active in Spain probable
• * Michiel Maddersteg, Dutch painter
• * Pietro da Pietri, Italian painter of an altarpiece for Santa Maria in Via Lata
• * Zou Zhe, Chinese Qing dynasty painter