1698 in art

Events

Paintings

Births

• Gaudenzio Botti – Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Brescia (d. 1778)
• Giovanni Francesco Braccioli – Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara (d. 1762)
• Felice Cappelletti – Italian painter of the late-Baroque period active in Verona (d. 1738)
• Giacomo Ceruti – Italian painter of peasants dressed in rags (d. 1767)
• Antonio David – Italian portrait painter, especially of the House of Stuart (d. 1750)
• Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer – German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School (d. 1763)
• Susanna Drury – Irish painter chiefly noted for her watercolor drawings (d. 1770)
• Pier Francesco Guala – Italian painter active for the most part in the region of his place of birth, Casale Monferrato (d. 1757)
• Johann Preissler, engraver (d. 1771)
• Paul Troger – Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker of the late Baroque period (d. 1762)

Deaths

• Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – Dutch artist (b. 1638)
• Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – Dutch artist (b. 1630)
• Francesco Barbieri – Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1623)
• Jacopo Chiavistelli – Italian painter of quadratura (b. 1618/1621)
• Teresa Maria Languasco – Italian painter and a monk (b. 1651)
• Johann Carl Loth – German painter active in Venice (b. 1632)
• Simone Pignoni – Italian painter of both licentious then later pious works (b. 1611)
• Maurelio Scanavini – Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara (b. 1665)
• Johann Anton Eismann – Austrian painter (b. 1604)
• Zha Shibiao – landscape painter and calligrapher from Anhui (b. 1615)