1684 in art

Events from the year 1684 in art.

Paintings

 * Giovanni Antonio Burrini – Virgin with Saints Petronius and Dionysus the Areopagite
 * Evert Collier – Self-Portrait with a Vanitas Still-life
 * Englebert Fisen – The Crucifixion (St Bartholomew's Church, Liège)
 * Aert de Gelder – The Jewish Bride (Esther Bedecked)
 * Cornelis Dusart – Village Feast
 * Fa Ruozhen – Cloudy Mountains
 * Willem van de Velde the Elder – The first battle of Schooneveld, 7 June 1673 (approximate date)

Births

 * January 14 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Dutch painter (died 1745)
 * April 25 – Marco Benefial, Italian, proto-Neoclassical painter, mainly active in Rome (died 1764)
 * October 10 – Antoine Watteau, French painter (died 1721)
 * November 30 – Andreas Møller, Danish portrait painter and pioneer of miniature painting (died 1762)
 * date unknown
 * Karl Aigen, German painter, master painter/tutor with Daniel Gran in Vienna (died 1762)
 * George Bickham the Elder, English writing master and engraver (died 1758)
 * Giovanni Angelo Borroni, Italian painter of the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic periods, active mainly in Milan (died 1772)
 * Serafino Brizzi, Italian engraver of the Baroque period (died 1724)
 * Bian Shoumin, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (died 1752)
 * Hendrik Frans van Lint, landscape painter from the Southern Netherlands (died 1763)
 * George Vertue, English engraver and antiquary (died 1756)
 * Odoardo Vicinelli, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1755)
 * probable – Peter Tillemans, Flemish baroque painter, especially of portraiture, landscapes, and works on sporting and military subjects (died 1734)

Deaths

 * January 15 – Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait and genre works painter (born 1639)
 * January 24 (buried) – Jan Wijnants, Dutch painter (born 1632)
 * February 21 – Pieter van Abeele, Dutch medallist and coiner in Amsterdam (born 1608)
 * March – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (born 1629)
 * April 26 – Jan Davidszoon de Heem, Dutch painter (born 1606)
 * July 2 – Josefa de Óbidos, Spanish-born Portuguese painter (born 1630)
 * October – Gerrit Battem, Dutch landscape painter (born 1636)
 * probable
 * Claude Audran the Younger, French painter (born 1639)
 * Pietro Paolo Baldini, Italian painter (born 1614)
 * Giovanni Battista Carlone, Italian painter active mainly in Genoa (born 1603)
 * Muyan, Chinese Chan monk and calligrapher (born 1611)
 * Abraham Myra, Finnish painter (born 1639)