1690 in art

Events from the year 1690 in art.

Events

 * Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer leaves France for England, where he produces a series of decorative panels for Montagu House, Bloomsbury.
 * Approximate date – Dutch Golden Age artist Gerard de Lairesse goes blind due to congenital syphilis and gives up painting in favour of art theory.

Paintings

 * Ludolf Bakhuizen – Ships in distress in raging storm (Rijksmuseum)
 * Richard Brakenburgh – Peasant scenes
 * Melchior d'Hondecoeter – De Menagerie (approx. date – Rijksmuseum)
 * Hishikawa Moronobu – Beauty looking back
 * Charles Le Brun – Adoration of the Shepherds
 * Ricardo do Pilar – Christ in Martyrdom (Monastery of São Bento, Rio de Janeiro)
 * Jan van Kessel the Younger – Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark
 * Spinoza – Virgin del Carmen and the Child Jesus (Church of the Holy Kings, Metztitlán, Mexico; painting destroyed by fire 1998)
 * Altarpiece of Strandebarm Church, Norway

Births

 * January 22 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (died 1743)
 * September 23 – Giuseppe Bazzani, Italian Rococo painter (died 1769)
 * probable
 * Lorenzo Fratellini, Italian painter of miniature portraits (died 1729)
 * Claes Lang, Finnish painter (died 1761)
 * Philip Mercier, portrait painter (died 1760)
 * Michael Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter (died 1747)
 * Ivan Nikitich Nikitin, Russian painter of portraits and battles (died 1741)
 * Orazio Solimena, Italian painter (died 1789)

Deaths

 * February 22 – Charles Le Brun, French painter (born 1619)
 * March
 * Bendix Grodtschilling, Danish painter and carpenter (born 1620)
 * Abraham van Beijeren, Dutch painter (born 1620)
 * March 17 – Jan van Mieris, Dutch painter (born 1660)
 * April 25 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (born 1610)
 * June 11 - Frederik Bloemaert, Dutch engraver (born c.1614)
 * July 15 – Carlo Antonio Bussi, Swiss painter (born 1658)
 * October 15
 * Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter (born 1622)
 * Adam Frans van der Meulen, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in battle scenes (born 1632)
 * date unknown
 * Giacomo Barri, Italian painter and printmaker (born unknown)
 * Benjamin Block, German–Hungarian portrait painter (born 1631)
 * Abraham Brueghel, Flemish painter from the famous Brueghel family of artists (born 1631)
 * Antonio Castrejon, Spanish painter (born 1625)
 * Tommaso Costa, Italian painter (born 1634)
 * Giovanni Stefano Danedi, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1608/1612)
 * Francesco di Maria, Italian painter active mainly in Naples (born 1623)
 * Frederick Kerseboom, German painter (born 1632)
 * Francesco Pianta, Italian sculptor (born 1634)
 * Herman Verelst, Dutch Golden Age portrait and still life painter (born 1641)
 * Yun Shouping, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty (born 1633)
 * probable
 * Pietro Lucatelli, Italian painter active in Rome (born 1630)
 * Wang Wu, Chinese painter and poet of the Qing Dynasty (born 1632)