title: 1681 in art
text: # 1681 in art
  
  Events from the year 1681 in art.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Caius Gabriel Cibber - Statue of Charles II, Soho Square
  * Jean Cotelle - Marriage at Cana (for Notre Dame de Paris)
  * Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Christ appearing to Mary Magdalen
  * Carlo Maratta - Apollo Chasing Daphne
  
  ## Births
  
  * March 30 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish art collector, painter, draughtsman, engraver (died 1752)
  * April 9 – Nicolas Edelinck, French-born engraver, son of Gerard Edelinck (died 1767)
  * April 18 – Girolamo Donnini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1743)
  * December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer (died 1753)
  * date unknown
     * Francesco Conti, Italian Venetian painter (died 1760)
     * Johann Jakob Frey the Elder, Swiss engraver (died 1752)
     * Peter Monamy, English marine painter (died 1749)
     * Girolamo Odam, Italian painter, pastel portraitist and landscape artist, as well as wood engraver (died 1718)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 11 – Gerard Soest, Dutch painter, father of Gerard ter Borch (born 1600)
  * March 12
     * Giuseppe Bonati, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Ferrara (born 1635)
     * Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch genre and portrait painter (born 1635)
  * April 12 – Pietro Paolini, Italian painter of still lifes and cabinet pictures (born 1603)
  * April 23 - Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter in the Baroque style (born 1597)
  * June 1 – Cornelis Saftleven, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (born 1607)
  * November 11 - Jacob Marrel, Dutch still-life painter (born 1613)
  * December 8 – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter (born 1617)
  * December 10 - Gaspard Marsy, French sculptor (born 1624)
  * date unknown
     * Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, Italian painter from the Bolognese School (born 1609)
     * Pierfrancesco Cittadini, Italian painter of still life (born 1616)
     * Giacinto Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period (born 1606)
     * Albrecht Kauw, Swiss still-life painter, cartographer and a painter of vedute (born 1621)
     * Juan Rizi, Spanish painter (born 1600)
     * Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting (born 1611)
  