1676 in art

Events from the year 1676 in art.

Events

 * December 10 - Giuseppe Ghezzi exhibits a number of privately owned works by Venetian masters, borrowed from their owners, in the cloisters of San Salvatore in Rome.
 * The portraitist Godfrey Kneller, together with his brother Johann Zacharias, moves from Germany to London, where he settles.

Works

 * Claude Lorrain - Aeneas taking leave of Dido in Carthage
 * Grinling Gibbons - Statue of King Charles II in Roman costume (gilded bronze)
 * Simon Ushakov - Theodore Stratelates

Births

 * February 2 - Francesco Maria Raineri, Italian sculptor of battle scenes, landscapes, and veduta with historical or mythologic figures (died 1758)
 * April 24 - Johann Georg Beck, German engraver (died 1722)
 * June 5 - Marco Ricci, Italian veduta painter (died 1729)
 * date unknown
 * Pierre-Jacques Cazes, French historical painter (died 1754)
 * Sarah Hoadly, English portrait painter (died 1743)
 * Théobald Michau (or Micho), Flemish painter (died 1765)
 * Jeong Seon, Korean landscape painter (died 1759)

Deaths

 * February 14 - Abraham Bosse, French artist, printmaker in etching, and watercolour (born 1602-1604)
 * May 20? - Jacques Courtois, French painter (born 1621)
 * August 5 - Pierre Patel ("le bon Patel"), French Baroque era painter (born 1605)
 * September - Pieter de Keyser, Dutch Golden Age sculptor and architect (born 1595)
 * October 13 - Juan de Arellano, Spanish painter (born 1614)
 * date unknown
 * Salvatore Castiglione, Italian painter of landscapes and pastoral subjects (born 1620)
 * Giovan Battista Langetti, Italian painter (born 1625)
 * Pierre Prieur, French enamel painter (born 1626)
 * Santo Rinaldi, Italian painter of battle scenes, landscapes, and vedute (born 1620)
 * Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella, French engraver (born c.1641)
 * Domenicus van Tol, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1635)
 * probable
 * Bartolommeo Coriolano, Italian engraver (born 1599)
 * Abel Schrøder, Danish woodcarver (born 1602)