1708 in art

Events from the year 1708 in art.

Events

 * Flemish painter and engraver Pieter Casteels III comes to work in Britain.
 * Czech sculptor Ferdinand Brokoff sets up his own studio.

Paintings

 * Michael Dahl – Portrait of George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie
 * Antonino Grano – Frescoes in Church of Santa Maria della Pietà in Kalsa, Palermo
 * Enoch Seeman
 * Group portrait of the Bisset family
 * Self-portrait

Drawings

 * Portrait of Anne Hathaway by Nathaniel Curzon

Publications

 * Roger de Piles – Cours de peinture par principes avec un balance de peintres

Births

 * January 25 – Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter (died 1787)
 * June 20 – François-Elie Vincent, Swiss painter of portrait miniatures (died 1790)
 * December 18 – John Collier, English caricaturist and satirist (died 1786)
 * date unknown
 * Francis Hayman, English painter and illustrator (died 1776)
 * Giuseppe Ghedini, Italian painter and later a university professor of painting (died 1791)
 * Mina Kolokolnikov, Russian painter and teacher (died 1775)
 * Johann Jakob Zeiller, Austrian fresco painter (died 1783)

Deaths

 * April – Abraham Storck, Dutch landscape and marine painter (born 1644)
 * April 6 – Willem van Ingen, Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy (born 1651)
 * April 19 – Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi, Italian woman composer and painter active in Bologna (born 1662)
 * June 10 – Romeyn de Hooghe, Dutch engraver and caricaturist (born 1645)
 * August 16 – Michel Corneille the Younger, French painter, etcher and engraver (born 1642)
 * September 6 – Evert Collier, Dutch painter (born 1640)
 * October 22 – Cesare Pronti, Italian painter of quadratura and allegorical figures (born 1626)
 * October 26 – Johann Kerseboom, German portrait painter (born unknown)
 * November 17 – Ludolf Bakhuysen, Dutch painter (born 1630)
 * November 20 – Paul Strudel, Austrian sculptor, architect, engineer and painter (born 1648)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Ventura Borghese, Italian painter (born 1640)
 * Francesco Ferrari, Italian painter and architect (born 1634)
 * Catharina Oostfries, Dutch glass painter (born 1636)
 * Paolo Antonio Paderna, Italian painter of Bologna (born 1649)
 * Jan van Kessel the Younger, Flemish painter active in Spain (born 1654)
 * probable
 * Michiel Maddersteg, Dutch painter (born 1662)
 * Pietro da Pietri, Italian painter of an altarpiece for Santa Maria in Via Lata (born 1663)
 * Zou Zhe, Chinese Qing dynasty painter (born 1636)