Overview of the events of 1696 in art
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Events from the year 1696 in art.
Events
A sculpture of a walking horse now attributed to Giovanni Francesco Susini (c. 1585 – c. 1653), is sold as a work by Susini's master Giambologna by the art dealer Marcus Forchondt in Antwerp to Prince Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein.
Paintings
- Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – The Market Square at Haarlem with the St. Bavo
- Jacob de Heusch – River View with the Ponte Rotto (Brunswick Gallery, Romer)
Sculptures
- Peter Van Dievoet - The White Lamb (Brussels)
Births
- January 5 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian designer/painter (died 1757)
- March – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German Rococo stuccoist and sculptor (died 1770)
- March 5 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (died 1770)
- March 31 – Mattia Bortoloni, Italian Rococo painter (died 1750)
- date unknown
- Laurent Delvaux, French sculptor (died 1778)
- Kim Du-ryang, Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period (died 1763)
- Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu (died 1755)
- Francesco de Mura, Italian painter of portraits and frescoes (died 1782)
- August Querfurt, Austrian painter (died 1761)
- Pieter Jan Snyers, Flemish painter (died 1757)
- Jean-Joseph Vinache, French sculptor (died 1754)
- Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (died 1766)
- probable
- Roland Paradis, silversmith (died 1754)
- 1696/1697: Gerard Vandergucht, English born engraver and art dealer (died 1776)
Deaths
- July 22 – Hendrik van Minderhout, Dutch seascape painter (born 1632)
- December 13 – Georg Matthäus Vischer, cartographer, topographer and engraver (born 1628)
- date unknown
- Gian Pietro Bellori, Italian painter, antiquarian and biographer of artists (born 1613)
- Esteban Márquez de Velasco, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1652)
- Charles Philippe Dieussart, Dutch architect and sculptor (born 1625)
- Jean Baptiste Mathey, French architect and painter (born 1630)
- Emilio Taruffi, Italian painter of canvases and altarpieces who was assassinated (born 1633)
- probable
- Dirck Helmbreker, Dutch Baroque painter and draughtsman (born 1633)
- Jacob Huysmans, Flemish portrait painter (born 1633)
- Jan Vermeer van Utrecht, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1630)
References
- Schiavone, Michael J. (2009). Dictionary of Maltese Biographies Vol. II G-Z. Pietà: Pubblikazzjonijiet Indipendenza. p. 1711. ISBN 9789993291329.