1687 in art

Events

• September 26 – An Ottoman Turk ammunition dump inside the Parthenon at Athens is ignited by Venetian bombardment. The resulting explosion severely damages the building and its sculptures.

  Paintings

• Godfrey Kneller – The Chinese Convert
• Carlo Maratta – Madonna and Child with St. Stanislaus Kostka
• Willem van de Velde – :File:BattleOfTexel.jpg|The 'Gouden Leeuw' at the Battle of the Texel, 21 August 1673
• Alida Withoos – Pineapple

  Births

• April 13 – Sigismund Streit, German merchant and patron of the arts
• June 6 – Giambattista Pittoni, Italian painter of religious, historical, and mythological subjects
• date unknown
• * Pietro Anderlini, Italian painter of the Rococo period
• * Jean Duvivier, French medallist
• * Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi, Ottoman calligrapher
• * Gaetano Fanti, Italian fresco painter
• * Thomas-Joachim Hébert, French ébéniste and furniture designer
• * Jin Nong, Chinese painter of mei blossoms, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou
• * Arnold Frans Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter specialized in cabinet pictures of landscapes and battle scenes
• * Huang Shen, Chinese painter
• * Pieter Vanderlyn, American colonial painter
• * Jacob van Huysum, Dutch botanical artist

  Deaths

• February 3 – Bernhard Keil, Danish painter
• June – Juriaen van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter
• September 10 – Willem Wissing, Dutch portrait artist
• October 18 – Pietro Liberi, Italian painter nicknamed il Libertino
• November 18 – Anton Janson, Dutch typographer and printmaker
• date unknown
• * Samuel Bernard, French miniature painter and engraver
• * Giacomo di Castro, Italian painter
• * François Collignon, French engraver, print-seller and publisher
• * Angelo Michele Colonna, Italian painter of frescoes
• * Nicolas Frémery, French sculptor
• * Simon de Leal Leon, Spanish painter
• * Marco Liberi, Italian painter of mythologic and historic cabinet paintings
• * Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish Baroque engraver
• * Francesco Rosa, Italian painter