1708 in art
Events from the year 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
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