1681 in art

Events

Works

Births

* Peter Monamy - English marine painter (d. 1749)
* Girolamo Donnini - Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1743)
* Girolamo Odam - Italian painter, pastel portaitist and landscape artist, as well as wood engraver (d. 1718)
* Giuseppe Valentini - Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer (d. 1753)
* Francesco Conti - Italian Venetian painter (d. 1760)

Deaths

* December 8 - Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter (b. 1617)
* Frans van Mieris, Sr. - Dutch genre and portrait painter (b. 1635)
* Cornelis Saftleven - Dutch painter of the Baroque period (b. 1607)
* Giuseppe Bonati - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Ferrara (b. 1635)
* Giovanni Domenico Cerrini - Italian painter from the Bolognese School (b. 1609)
* Pierfrancesco Cittadini - Italian painter of lush and rich still lifes (b. 1616)
* Justus Sustermans - Flemish painter in the Baroque style (b. 1597)
* Diego Quispe Tito - Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting (b. 1611)
* Giacinto Gimignani - Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period (b. 1606)
* Pietro Paolini - Italian painter of still lifes and cabinet pictures (b. 1603)