1688 in art

Events from the year 1688 in art.

Events

 * Matthias Steinl becomes ivory engraver at the imperial court in Vienna.
 * The Equestrian statue of Christian V by French sculptor Abraham-César Lamoureux is unveiled on Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen.

Paintings

 * René-Antoine Houasse – Minerva teaching the Rhodians sculpture (Palace of Versailles)
 * Willem van de Velde the Younger – The Fleet at Sea
 * Willem van Mieris – A Seated Man

Births

 * March 16 – Anna Maria Garthwaite, English textile designer (died 1763)
 * April 15 – Johann Georg Bergmüller, Bavarian painter of frescoes, of the Baroque (died 1762)
 * April 28 – Giacomo Boni, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1766)
 * May 6 – Charles Parrocel, French painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunt paintings (died 1752)
 * July 19 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the imperial court (died 1766)
 * September 6 – Antonio Corradini, Venetian Rococo sculptor (died 1752)
 * September 12 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Bohemian sculptor (died 1731)
 * October 29 – Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver (died 1723)
 * November 21 – Antonio Visentini, Italian designer, painter and engraver (died 1782)
 * date unknown
 * Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, French line-engraver (died 1754)
 * François Dumont, French sculptor (died 1726)
 * Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna, Italian quadratura painter (died 1774)
 * José de Ibarra, Mexican painter (died 1756)
 * Ercole Graziani the Younger, Italian painter (died 1765)
 * Edme Jeaurat, French engraver (died 1738)
 * Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (died 1771)
 * François Lemoyne, French Rococo painter (died 1737)
 * Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (died 1763)
 * Gao Xiang, Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (died 1753)

Deaths

 * February 11 – Cesare Gennari, Italian painter (born 1641)
 * March 9 – Claude Mellan, French engraver and painter (born 1598)
 * April 3 – Cosimo Fancelli, Italian sculptor (born 1620)
 * October 4 – Philips Koninck, Dutch landscape painter (born 1619)
 * October 13 – Pedro de Mena, Spanish sculptor (born 1628)
 * October 14 – Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (born 1606)
 * December 8 – Thomas Flatman, English poet and miniature painter (born 1635)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Battista Benaschi, Italian painter and engraver active in the late-Renaissance period (born 1636)
 * Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, Spanish painter (born 1638)
 * Carlo Cane, Italian painter (born 1618)