1690 in art
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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
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- 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){{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolas-Lancret|title=Nicolas Lancret|publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=29 February 2024}}
- 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){{cite web|url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/421263/charles-le-brun-1619-1690|title=Charles le Brun (1619-1690) c.1770-80|publisher=Royal Collection Trust|access-date=29 February 2024}}
- 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)