1681 in art

Events from the year 1681 in art.

Works

 * Caius Gabriel Cibber - Statue of Charles II, Soho Square
 * Jean Cotelle - Marriage at Cana (for Notre Dame de Paris)
 * Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Christ appearing to Mary Magdalen
 * Carlo Maratta - Apollo Chasing Daphne

Births

 * March 30 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish art collector, painter, draughtsman, engraver (died 1752)
 * April 9 – Nicolas Edelinck, French-born engraver, son of Gerard Edelinck (died 1767)
 * April 18 – Girolamo Donnini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1743)
 * December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer (died 1753)
 * date unknown
 * Francesco Conti, Italian Venetian painter (died 1760)
 * Johann Jakob Frey the Elder, Swiss engraver (died 1752)
 * Peter Monamy, English marine painter (died 1749)
 * Girolamo Odam, Italian painter, pastel portraitist and landscape artist, as well as wood engraver (died 1718)

Deaths

 * February 11 – Gerard Soest, Dutch painter, father of Gerard ter Borch (born 1600)
 * March 12
 * Giuseppe Bonati, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Ferrara (born 1635)
 * Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch genre and portrait painter (born 1635)
 * April 12 – Pietro Paolini, Italian painter of still lifes and cabinet pictures (born 1603)
 * April 23 - Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter in the Baroque style (born 1597)
 * June 1 – Cornelis Saftleven, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (born 1607)
 * November 11 - Jacob Marrel, Dutch still-life painter (born 1613)
 * December 8 – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter (born 1617)
 * December 10 - Gaspard Marsy, French sculptor (born 1624)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, Italian painter from the Bolognese School (born 1609)
 * Pierfrancesco Cittadini, Italian painter of still life (born 1616)
 * Giacinto Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period (born 1606)
 * Albrecht Kauw, Swiss still-life painter, cartographer and a painter of vedute (born 1621)
 * Juan Rizi, Spanish painter (born 1600)
 * Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting (born 1611)