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1691 in art

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Events from the year 1691 in art.

Events

  • William Fermor, 1st Baron Leominster, buys the Metrological Relief (now on display at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford).

Works

Paintings

  • Matias de Arteaga – The Cluster of the Land of Promise
  • Hyacinthe Rigaud – Portrait of Pierre Mignard

Sculpture

  • Jean Del Cour – St James (Sint-Jacobskerk, Liege)

Births

  • January 16 – Peter Scheemakers, Flemish Roman Catholic sculptor (died 1781)
  • April 5 – Franz Joseph Spiegler, German fresco painter (died 1757)
  • April 13 – Joseph-Charles Roettiers, French engraver and medallist (died 1779)
  • June 2 – Nicolau Nasoni, artist and architect (died 1773)
  • June 17 – Giovanni Paolo Pannini or Panini, Italian painter and architect, mainly known as one of the vedutisti or veduta or view painters (died 1765)
  • date unknown
    • Jan František Händl, Czech Roman Catholic priest and baroque painter (died 1751)
    • Pietro Antonio Magatti, Italian painter known for paintings and frescoes in his hometown of Milan (died 1767)
  • probable
    • Antoine Aveline, French engraver (died 1743)
    • Agostino Masucci, Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (died 1758)

Deaths

  • January 19 – Giacinto Brandi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome and Naples (born 1621)
  • April 3 – Jean Petitot, French-Swiss enamel painter (born 1607)
  • May 13 – William Faithorne, English painter and engraver (born 1627/1628)
  • September – Abraham Hondius, Dutch Baroque painter known for animal paintings (born 1625)
  • November 7 – Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt, Dutch portrait painter (born 1640)
  • November 14 – Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (born 1617)
  • November 15 – Aelbert Cuyp, Dutch landscape painter (born 1620)
  • date unknown
    • Giovanni Francesco Cassana, Italian portrait painter (born 1611)
    • Giovanni Coli, Italian painter from Lucca (born 1636)
    • Pietro Paolo Naldini, Italian sculptor (born 1619)
    • Gury Nikitin, was a Russian painter and iconographer (born 1620)
    • Cheng Sui, Chinese landscape painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1605)
    • Jacob van der Roer van Dordrecht, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (born 1613)
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