1696 in art

Events from the year 1696 in art.

Events
A sculpture of a walking horse now attributed to Giovanni Francesco Susini (c. 1585 – c. 1653), is sold as a work by Susini's master Giambologna by the art dealer Marcus Forchondt in Antwerp to Prince Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein.

Paintings

 * Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – The Market Square at Haarlem with the St. Bavo
 * Jacob de Heusch – River View with the Ponte Rotto (Brunswick Gallery, Romer)

Sculptures



 * Peter Van Dievoet - The White Lamb (Brussels)

Births

 * January 5 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian designer/painter (died 1757)
 * March – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German Rococo stuccoist and sculptor (died 1770)
 * March 5 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (died 1770)
 * March 31 – Mattia Bortoloni, Italian Rococo painter (died 1750)
 * date unknown
 * Laurent Delvaux, French sculptor (died 1778)
 * Kim Du-ryang, Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period (died 1763)
 * Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu (died 1755)
 * Francesco de Mura, Italian painter of portraits and frescoes (died 1782)
 * August Querfurt, Austrian painter (died 1761)
 * Pieter Jan Snyers, Flemish painter (died 1757)
 * Jean-Joseph Vinache, French sculptor (died 1754)
 * Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (died 1766)
 * probable
 * Roland Paradis, silversmith (died 1754)
 * 1696/1697: Gerard Vandergucht, English born engraver and art dealer (died 1776)

Deaths

 * July 22 – Hendrik van Minderhout, Dutch seascape painter (born 1632)
 * December 13 – Georg Matthäus Vischer, cartographer, topographer and engraver (born 1628)
 * date unknown
 * Gian Pietro Bellori, Italian painter, antiquarian and biographer of artists (born 1613)
 * Esteban Márquez de Velasco, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1652)
 * Charles Philippe Dieussart, Dutch architect and sculptor (born 1625)
 * Jean Baptiste Mathey, French architect and painter (born 1630)
 * Emilio Taruffi, Italian painter of canvases and altarpieces who was assassinated (born 1633)
 * probable
 * Dirck Helmbreker, Dutch Baroque painter and draughtsman (born 1633)
 * Jacob Huysmans, Flemish portrait painter (born 1633)
 * Jan Vermeer van Utrecht, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1630)