1686 in art
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- Pierre GranierPierre GranierPierre Granier was a proficient but minor French sculptor, trained in the excellent atelier of François Girardon who produced a generation of highly competent sculptors for the Bâtiments du Roi. Granier served as a modest member of the extensive team that provided sculpture for the Château de...
is commissioned to provide a new right arm for the recently-discovered Jupiter de Smyrne. - Bogdan SaltanovBogdan SaltanovBogdan Saltanov , also known as Ivan Ievlevich Saltanov, was an Armenian-born Russian painter at the court of Alexis I of Russia and his successors. Saltanov headed the painting workshop of the Kremlin Armoury from 1686...
becomes head of the painting workshop of the Kremlin ArmouryKremlin ArmouryThe Kremlin Armory is one of the oldest museums of Moscow, established in 1808 and located in the Moscow Kremlin .The Kremlin Armoury originated as the royal arsenal in 1508. Until the transfer of the court to St Petersburg, the Armoury was in charge of producing, purchasing and storing weapons,...
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Births
- March 17 - Jean-Baptiste OudryJean-Baptiste OudryJean-Baptiste Oudry was a French Rococo painter, engraver, and tapestry designer. He is particularly well known for his naturalistic pictures of animals and his hunt pieces depicting game.-Biography:...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
RococoRococoRococo , also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century style which developed as Baroque artists gave up their symmetry and became increasingly ornate, florid, and playful...
painter, engraver and tapestry designer (d. 17551755 in art-Events:* Canaletto returns from England to Venice, where he continues painting until his death in 1768.-Paintings:* Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Musical Contest-Births:*April 16 – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter...
) - August 8 - Wenzel Lorenz Reiner, Czech Baroque painter (d. 17431743 in art-Works:* William Hogarth begins painting his Marriage à-la-mode series* Louis-Michel van Loo completes The Family of Philip V-Births:*March 9 – Johann Kaspar Füssli, Swiss painter...
) - August 27 - Agostino CornacchiniAgostino CornacchiniAgostino Cornacchini was an Italian sculptor and painter of the Rococo period, active mainly in Rome.He was born in Pescia and died in Rome. In 1712, Cornacchini established himself in the household of his uncle, Cardinal Carlo Agostino Fabbroni, who until 1720 provided Cornacchini with a studio,...
, Italian sculptor and painter (d. 17541754 in art-Events:*Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce founded in England by William Shipley-Births:*May 8 – Amos Doolittle, engraver *May 10 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German...
) - September 29 - Cosmas Damian AsamCosmas Damian AsamCosmas Damian Asam was a German painter and architect during the late Baroque period. Born in Benediktbeuern, he moved to Rome in 1711 to study at the Accademia di San Luca with Carlo Maratta. There, he could see the fresco Ascensione di Cristo by Melozzo da Forlì in Santi Apostoli Church...
, German painter and architectArchitectAn architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
during the late BaroqueBaroqueThe Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...
period (d. 17391739 in art-Paintings:* François Boucher , paints The Breakfast.-Births:*?August – Francis Towne, English water-colour painter *August 21 – Mariano Salvador Maella, Spanish painter and engraver...
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- Alessandro Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 17481748 in art-Events:*Patience Lovell, the first recognized American-born sculptor, marries Joseph Wright.-Works:*Robert Feke - Portrait of William Bowdoin-Births:*May 22 - Thomas Roberts, Irish Landscape artist...
) - Carlo Carlone, Italian painter (d. 17751775 in art-Events:*Construction of the Cluj-Napoca Bánffy Palace, now the National Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca.-Paintings:*John Trumbull – The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill-Births:...
) - Antonio ConsettiAntonio ConsettiAntonio Consetti was an Italian historical painter, born and died in Modena. He was represented in the Estense Gallery of his native city, by a Virgin of the Rosary with St. Dominic and a St. Joseph & Angels. He painted the Virgin and child with St. Rose at the Museo Civico d'Arte di Modena...
, Italian historical painter (d. 17661766 in art-Events:* England's oldest surviving Georgian theatre was constructed in Stockton-on-Tees.-Paintings:* Maruyama Ōkyo, Crows* Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery-Births:...
) - Louise-Magdeleine HorthemelsLouise-Magdeleine HorthemelsLouise-Magdeleine Horthemels, or Louise-Madeleine Hortemels, also called Magdeleine Horthemels , was a French engraver, the mother of Charles-Nicolas Cochin...
, French engraver (d. 17671767 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Swing* Canaletto spends his last full year painting, in Venice.-Births:* Jacques-Laurent Agasse – animal and landscape painter...
) - Giovanni Pietro LigarioGiovanni Pietro LigarioGiovanni Pietro Ligario was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque. He was born at Sondrio in the Valtelline, and after early training there, moved to Rome, where he frequented the studio of Lazzaro Baldi, and afterwards visited Venice. On his return to his native town in 1727, he was employed in...
, Italian painter of historical pictures for churches and private collections (d. 17481748 in art-Events:*Patience Lovell, the first recognized American-born sculptor, marries Joseph Wright.-Works:*Robert Feke - Portrait of William Bowdoin-Births:*May 22 - Thomas Roberts, Irish Landscape artist...
) - Okumura MasanobuOkumura Masanobuwas a Japanese print designer, book publisher, and painter. He also illustrated novelettes and in his early years wrote some fiction. At first his work adhered to the Torii school, but later drifted beyond that. He is a figure in the formative era of ukiyo-e doing early works on actors and bijinga...
, JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese print designer, book publisher, and painter (d. 17641764 in art-Births:*April 14 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder *April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann, printer and lithographer *May 11 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter *May 20 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor...
) - Wang ShishenWang ShishenWang Shishen was a Chinese painter and calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty.Wang was native of Xiuning in the Anhui province during the Qing dynasty. His style name was 'Jinren' and his sobriquets were 'Chaolin' and 'Xidong waishi'. He was born poor, but later made a good living as a painter and...
, Chinese painter (d. 17591759 in art-Works:*Giambettino Cignaroli – Death of Cato*Thomas Gainsborough – Self-portrait-Births:*January 21 – François Baillairgé, Canadian artist of woodworking, wood-carving, and architecture...
) - Zou YiguiZou YiguiZou Yigui , style name as Yuanbao , sobriquet as Xiaoshan and Erzhi , is a famed Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty. He was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province....
, Chinese painter in Qing DynastyQing DynastyThe Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....
(d. 17721772 in art-Events:*King George III of the United Kingdom appoints Benjamin West official painter to the court.-Works:* John Singleton Copley – Samuel Adams, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston*Fyodor Rokotov – Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya-Births:...
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- Alessandro Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1748
- Zhang ZongcangZhang ZongcangZhang Zongcang , courtesy name as Mocun, is a famed Chinese landscape painter in the Qing Dynasty. He born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province....
– Chinese painter in the Qing DynastyQing DynastyThe Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....
(d. 17561756 in art-Events:* The Venetian Academy was co-founded by Giovanni Antonio Guardi , also known as Gianantonio Guardi, an Italian painter, et al.-Paintings:* François Boucher paints portraits of Madame de Pompadour....
) - probable - Li Shan, Chinese painter (d. 17561756 in art-Events:* The Venetian Academy was co-founded by Giovanni Antonio Guardi , also known as Gianantonio Guardi, an Italian painter, et al.-Paintings:* François Boucher paints portraits of Madame de Pompadour....
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Deaths
- January 2 - Frederik de MoucheronFrederik de Moucheron-Biography:Frederik de Moucheron was the son of the painter Balthazar de Moucheron and Cornelia van Brouckhoven. His father came from a wealthy family of wine traders and is portrayed as one of the younger sons in the Moucheron Family portrait, 1563. Frederik trained with Jan Asselijn and became a...
, Dutch Golden Age landscape painter (b. 16331633 in art-Works:*Anthony van Dyck – Self-portrait with a Sunflower*Claude Lorrain – Coast View and Landscape with the Judgment of Paris-Births:*April - Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker -Works:*Anthony van Dyck – Self-portrait with a Sunflower*Claude Lorrain – Coast View and Landscape with the...
) - January 17 - Carlo DolciCarlo DolciCarlo Dolci was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions.-Biography:...
, Italian painter of chiefly sacred subjects (b. 16161616 in art-Paintings:* Jacob Jordaens painted Adoration of the Shepherds, his earliest dated extant work.* Isaac Oliver painted a miniature of Donne.* Simon van de Passe made an engraved portrait of Pocahontas , later published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia in 1624.* Peter Paul Rubens painted...
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- Antonio Busca, Italian painter active in LombardyLombardyLombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region, making it the most populous and richest region in the country and one of the richest in the whole of Europe...
(b. 16251625 in art-Works:*Pieter Lastman – The Angel and Tobias with the Fish*Rembrandt – The Stoning of Saint Stephen-Births:*May 13 – Carlo Maratta, Italian painter *November 20 – Paulus Potter, Dutch painter specializing in animals in landscapes...
) - Carlo CesioCarlo CesioCarlo Cesio, a painter and engraver of the Roman school, was born at Androdoco, in the Roman States, in 1626. He was brought up at Rome, in the school of Pietro da Cortona, and was employed with some of the best artists of his time in several public works during the pontificate of Alexander VII. He...
, Italian painter active in RomeRomeRome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
(b. 16261626 in art-Works:*Rembrandt**The Angel and the Prophet Balaam**Consul Cerialis and the Germanic Legions**A Musical Gathering**The Rest on the Flight to Egypt **Tobit and Anna with the Kid-Births:...
) - Nicolas CochinNicolas CochinNicolas Cochin, called the Elder, was a French draughtsman and engraver. He was born at Troyes in 1610, the son of a painter named Noel Cochin. About 1635, he went to Paris, where he died in 1686. He often imitated and copied Callot, but chose for his model De la Belle, some of whosedrawings he...
, French draughtsman and engraver (b. 16101610 in art-Works:*Caravaggio**The Denial of Saint Peter**John the Baptist **The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula**David with the Head of Goliath-Births:...
) - Giovanni Battista MarmiGiovanni Battista MarmiGiovanni Battista Marmi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He initially apprenticed with Vincenzo Dandini, then Livio Mehus, then moved to Rome to become a pupil of the painter Ciro Ferri and Giovanni Maria Morandi.-References:...
, Italian painter (b. 16591659 in art-Paintings:* Rembrandt – Jacob Wrestling with the Angel* Jan Vermeer – Officer and a Laughing Girl-Births:*January 21 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes...
) - Pieter Pietersz NedekPieter Pietersz Nedek-Biography:Nedek was born and died in Amsterdam. According to Houbraken he was the same age as Govert Flinck and was a landscape painter who had been a pupil of Pieter Lastman. He died a bachelor, aged 70....
, Dutch Golden Age painter (b. 16161616 in art-Paintings:* Jacob Jordaens painted Adoration of the Shepherds, his earliest dated extant work.* Isaac Oliver painted a miniature of Donne.* Simon van de Passe made an engraved portrait of Pocahontas , later published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia in 1624.* Peter Paul Rubens painted...
) - Antonio RaggiAntonio RaggiAntonio Raggi , also called Antonio Lombardo, was a sculptor of the Roman Baroque, originating from Ticino.-Biography:He was born in Vico Morcote on the Lake Lugano. His mentor in Rome for nearly three decades was Gianlorenzo Bernini...
, Italian sculptor (b. 16241624 in art-Births:*February 11 - Lambert Doomer, Dutch painter *November - Barent Fabritius, Dutch painter *date unknown**Valerio Castello, Italian painter **Antonio Giusti, Italian painter, active mainly in Florence...
) - Simon UshakovSimon UshakovSimon Fyodorovich Ushakov was a leading Russian graphic artist of the late 17th-century. Together with Fyodor Zubov and Fyodor Rozhnov, he is associated with the comprehensive reform of the Russian Orthodox Church undertaken by Patriarch Nikon.-Biography:We know almost nothing about the early...
, Russian painter (b. 16261626 in art-Works:*Rembrandt**The Angel and the Prophet Balaam**Consul Cerialis and the Germanic Legions**A Musical Gathering**The Rest on the Flight to Egypt **Tobit and Anna with the Kid-Births:...
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- Antonio Busca, Italian painter active in Lombardy