1691 in art
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- William Fermor, 1st Baron LeominsterWilliam Fermor, 1st Baron LeominsterWilliam Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster , was an English connoisseur.Fermor was the eldest son of Sir William Fermor, 1st Baronet, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, by Mary, daughter of Hugh Perry of London and widow of Henry Noel, second son of Edward, viscount Campden. He succeeded as second...
, buys the Metrological ReliefMetrological ReliefThe Metrological Relief is an Ancient Greek relief of a man with arms outstretched, cut with hammer and chisel on a triangular, marble slab between 460 to 430 BC. It was found in Turkey or the Greek Islands in 1625–26 AD by a chaplain called William Petty collecting sculptures for Thomas Howard,...
, now on display at the Ashmolean MuseumAshmolean MuseumThe Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum...
in Oxford.
Births
- January 16 - Peter ScheemakersPeter ScheemakersPeter Scheemakers was a Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor who worked for most of his life in London, Great Britain....
, FlemishFlemish peopleThe Flemings or Flemish are the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Belgium, where they are mostly found in the northern region of Flanders. They are one of two principal cultural-linguistic groups in Belgium, the other being the French-speaking Walloons...
Roman Catholic sculptor (d. 17811781 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David – Belisarius begging for alms* Henry Fuseli – The Nightmare-Births:*March – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter *March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, architect and painter...
) - June 2 - Nicolau NasoniNicolau NasoniNicolau Nasoni was an Italian artist and architect but mostly active in Portugal....
, artist and architect (d. 17731773 in art-Events:*Francisco Goya marries Josefa Bayeu.*Ulrika Pasch elected in to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts-Births:*December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, and memorialist *date unknown...
) - June 17 – Giovanni Paolo PanniniGiovanni Paolo PanniniGiovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini was a painter and architect, who worked in Rome and is mainly known as one of the vedutisti ....
or Panini, Italian painter and architect, mainly known as one of the vedutisti or vedutaVedutaA veduta is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista....
or view painters (d. 17651765 in art-Paintings:*Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Coresus et Callirhoe*William Pars – The Parthenon when it contained a mosque. Published in James Stuart and Nicholas Revett "The Antiquities of Athens" -Births:...
) - April 5 - Franz Joseph SpieglerFranz Joseph SpieglerFranz Joseph Spiegler was a German Baroque painter. He is best known for his frescoes, which decorate many of the churches and monasteries along the Upper Swabian Baroque Route. The frescoes in the Zwiefalten Abbey are considered his masterpiece.Spiegler was born the Free Imperial City of Wangen...
, German frescoFrescoFresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...
painter (d. 17571757 in art-Births:*March 21 – James Sowerby, naturalist and illustrator *July 24 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-born painter especially of Russian portraiture *November 1 – Antonio Canova, sculptor...
) - date unknown - Pietro Antonio MagattiPietro Antonio MagattiPietro Antonio Magatti was an Italian painter, active in Lombardy in a late-Baroque style. Born in Varese, known for paintings and frescoes in his hometown, Milan, Pavia, Como, as well as in the Castello di Masnago. He trained with Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole.-External links:***...
, Italian painter known for paintings and frescoes in his hometown of MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
(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...
) - probable - Agostino MasucciAgostino MasucciAgostino Masucci was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period.Born in Rome, he initially apprenticed with Andrea Procaccino, and then became a member of the studio of Carlo Maratta. He joined the Accademia di San Luca in 1724, and from 1736 to 1738, he was director or Principe...
, Italian painter of 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...
or 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...
period (d. 17581758 in art-Births:*April 4**John Hoppner, portrait painter **Pierre Paul Prud'hon, painter *June 19 – Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, engraver *August 14 – Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, painter...
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- January 19 - Giacinto BrandiGiacinto BrandiGiacinto Brandi was an Italian painter of the Baroque era, active mainly in Rome and Naples.Born in Poli, in the Lazio, he was trained in Rome in the studio of Alessandro Algardi, a noted sculptor, who noted that Brandi was more suited to painting. He joined the studio of Giovanni Giacomo Sementi...
, Italian painter, active mainly 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...
and NaplesNaplesNaples is a city in Southern Italy, situated on the country's west coast by the Gulf of Naples. Lying between two notable volcanic regions, Mount Vesuvius and the Phlegraean Fields, it is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples...
(b. 16211621 in art-Paintings:* Giovanni Francesco Barbieri painted The Suicide of Cleopatra.* Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri painted Virgin and Child.* Domenico Zampieri painted The Assumption of Mary Magdalene into Heaven.-Births:...
) - May 13 - William FaithorneWilliam FaithorneWilliam Faithorne , often "the Elder", , English painter and engraver, was born in London and was apprenticed to William Peake....
, EnglishEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
painter and engraver (b. 1627/16281627 in art-Events:* The Fontana della Barcaccia in Rome is engineered by Gian Lorenzo Bernini with help from his father.-Works:*Rembrandt**The Flight to Egypt **The Gold Weigher**St. Paul in Prison-Births:...
) - November 7 - Pieter Cornelisz van SlingelandtPieter Cornelisz van SlingelandtPieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt was a Dutch Golden Age portrait painter who had been a pupil of Gerard Dou and is known as one of Leiden's fijnschilders..-Biography:...
, Dutch portrait painter (b. 16401640 in art-Paintings:*Rembrandt - Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet*Diego Velázquez - Mars Resting -Births:*June 21 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch painter born at Frankfurt...
) - November 14 - Tosa MitsuokiTosa Mitsuokiwas a Japanese painter.-Tosa Mitsuoki:Tosa Mitsuoki was the successor of the Tosa school after his father, Tosa Mitsunori . Mitsuoki brought the Tosa school to Kyoto after around 50 years in Sakai. When the school was settled in Sakai, Mitsunori painted for townsmen...
, Japanese painterJapanese artJapanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper and more recently manga, cartoon, along with a myriad of other types of works of art...
(b. 16171617 in art-Events:*Kanō Tan'yū becomes an official artist of the Tokugawa shogunate.*Lucas Vorsterman joins the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, soon becoming Rubens's primary engraver.-Works:*Peter Paul Rubens - Adoration of the Magi*Diego Velázquez - The Lunch...
) - November 15 - Aelbert CuypAelbert CuypAelbert Jacobsz Cuyp was one of the leading Dutch landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age in the 17th century. The most famous of a family of painters, the pupil of his father Jacob Gerritsz...
, DutchNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
landscape painter (b. 16201620 in art-Paintings:* Jan Brueghel the Younger - Paradise* Artemisia Gentileschi - Judith Decapitating Holofernes* Orazio Gentileschi - Judith and Holofernes.* Jacob Jordaens - The Satyr and the Farmer's Family...
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- Giovanni Francesco CassanaGiovanni Francesco CassanaGiovanni Francesco Cassana was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Genoa. He was a pupil of the painter Strozzi. His pupils include his son Niccolò Cassana, Niccolò Bambini, and Giovanni Battista Langetti. He was known as a portrait artists. He passed some time at the Court...
, Italian portrait painter (b. 16111611 in art-Paintings:*Frans Hals - Jacobus Zaffius -Births:*February 24 - William Dobson, English portrait painter *March 15 - Jan Fyt, Flemish animal painter and etcher...
) - Giovanni ColiGiovanni ColiGiovanni Coli was an Italian painter from Lucca, active in the Baroque style.He trained with Pietro Paolini in Lucca and then moved to Rome to work under Pietro da Cortona. He often worked alongside Filippo Gherardi. With Coli, Gherardi was initially a trainee of Pietro Paolini in Lucca...
, Italian painter from LuccaLuccaLucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plainnear the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...
(b. 16361636 in art-Paintings:* Nicolas Poussin - The Triumph of Pan and The Triumph of Bacchus * Rembrandt**Belshazzar's Feast .**The Blinding of Samson...
) - Abraham HondiusAbraham HondiusAbraham Danielsz. Hondius was a Dutch Golden Age painter known his depictions of animals. He was the son of a city stonemason, Daniel Abramsz de Hondt....
, Dutch Baroque painter known for animal paintings (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...
) - Pietro Paolo NaldiniPietro Paolo NaldiniPietro Paolo Naldini , also known as Paolo Naldini, was an Italian sculptor.Naldini specialized in sculpting religious-themed works, primarily angels. He is known to have previously collaborated with Gian Lorenzo Bernini.-References:...
, Italian sculptor (b. 16191619 in art-Events:-Births:*February 24 - Charles Le Brun, painter *April 2 - Onofrio Gabrieli, Italian painter *May - Philips Wouwerman, Dutch painter *June - Jan Victors, Dutch painter of subjects from the Bible...
) - Cheng SuiCheng SuiCheng Sui was a Chinese landscape painter, poet, seal cutter, and calligrapher during the Qing Dynasty .Cheng was born in She County, Anhui. His style name was 'Muqian' and his sobriquet was 'Gou daoren'. Cheng's landscapes were painted using dry and dark brushstrokes. He died in 1691.-References:...
, ChineseChinaChinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
landscape painter during the Ming DynastyMing DynastyThe Ming Dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. The Ming, "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history", was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic...
(b. 16051605 in art-Paintings:* Caravaggio**Christ on the Mount of Olives**Ecce Homo**Saint Jerome in Meditation**Madonna and Child with St. Anne * Nicholas Hilliard- miniature portrait of Charles, Lord Howard of Effingham...
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- Giovanni Francesco Cassana