1696 in art

Events

Paintings

• Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – The Market Square at Haarlem with the St. Bavo
• Jacob de Heusch – River View with the Ponte Rotto

  Sculptures

• Peter Van Dievoet - The White Lamb

  Births

• January 5 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian designer/painter
• March – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German Rococo stuccoist and sculptor
• March 5 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter
• March 31 – Mattia Bortoloni, Italian Rococo painter
• date unknown
• * Laurent Delvaux, French sculptor
• * Kim Du-ryang, Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period
• * Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu
• * Francesco de Mura, Italian painter of portraits and frescoes
• * August Querfurt, Austrian painter
• * Pieter Jan Snyers, Flemish painter
• * Jean-Joseph Vinache, French sculptor
• * Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter
• probable
• * Roland Paradis, silversmith
• * 1696/1697: Gerard Vandergucht, English born engraver and art dealer

  Deaths

• July 22 – Hendrik van Minderhout, Dutch seascape painter
• December 13 – Georg Matthäus Vischer, cartographer, topographer and engraver
• date unknown
• * Gian Pietro Bellori, Italian painter, antiquarian and biographer of artists
• * Esteban Márquez de Velasco, Spanish Baroque painter
• * Charles Philippe Dieussart, Dutch architect and sculptor
• * Jean Baptiste Mathey, French architect and painter
• * Emilio Taruffi, Italian painter of canvases and altarpieces who was assassinated
• probable
• * Dirck Helmbreker, Dutch Baroque painter and draughtsman
• * Jacob Huysmans, Flemish portrait painter
• * Jan Vermeer van Utrecht, Dutch Golden Age painter