1685 in art

Events from the year 1685 in art.

Events

 * (unknown)

Paintings

 * Richard Brakenburgh – Feast of St Nicholas
 * Claudio Coello – St Dominic of Guzman (approximate date)
 * Aert de Gelder – Esther and Mordecai
 * Andrea Pozzo - Dome at Sant'Ignazio
 * Simon Ushakov – The Last Supper

Sculpture

 * Pierre Lepautre – Faune au chevreau

Births

 * March 17 – Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (died 1766)
 * November 5 - Peter Angelis, French painter (died 1734)
 * November 15 – Balthasar Denner, German portrait painter (died 1749)
 * date unknown
 * Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style (died 1768)
 * Pietro Paolo Cristofari, Italian artist responsible for a number of the mosaics in St. Peter's Basilica (died 1743)
 * Bernardo Germán de Llórente, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1757)
 * Francesco Sleter, Italian painter active in England (died 1775)
 * Jan van Gool, Dutch painter and writer (died 1763)
 * probable
 * William Kent, architect and designer (died 1748)
 * Johann Georg Schmidt, Austrian Baroque painter (died 1748)

Deaths

 * January – Herman Saftleven, Dutch painter (born 1609)
 * March 25 – Nicolas Robert, French miniaturist and engraver (born 1614)
 * May – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch genre painter (born 1610)
 * June 16 – Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter (born 1660)
 * August 8 – Giovanni Battista Salvi or Sassoferrato, Italian painter (born 1609)
 * September – Adam Colonia, Dutch painter working in England (born 1634)
 * October 2 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (born 1638)
 * October 3 – Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish painter (born 1614)
 * date unknown
 * Li Yin, Chinese painter, poet and calligrapher (born c.1610)
 * Giulio Trogli, Italian painter nicknamed il Paradosso ("the Paradox") (born 1613)
 * Jan Baptist van Heil, Flemish painter (born 1604)