title: 1687 in art
text: # 1687 in art
  
  Events from the year 1687 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * September 26 – An Ottoman Turk ammunition dump inside the Parthenon at Athens is ignited by Venetian bombardment. The resulting explosion severely damages the building and its sculptures.
  
  ## Paintings
  
  * Godfrey Kneller – The Chinese Convert
  * Carlo Maratta – Madonna and Child with St. Stanislaus Kostka (Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, Rome)
  * Willem van de Velde – The 'Gouden Leeuw' at the Battle of the Texel, 21 August 1673
  * Alida Withoos – Pineapple (painting of the first pineapple bred in Europe; not extant)
  
  ## Births
  
  * April 13 – Sigismund Streit, German merchant and patron of the arts (died 1775)
  * June 6 – Giambattista Pittoni, Italian painter of religious, historical, and mythological subjects (died 1767)
  * date unknown
     * Pietro Anderlini, Italian painter of the Rococo period (died 1755)
     * Jean Duvivier, French medallist (died 1761)
     * Egrikapili Mehmed Rasim Efendi, Ottoman calligrapher (died 1756)
     * Gaetano Fanti, Italian fresco painter (died 1759)
     * Thomas-Joachim Hébert, French ébéniste and furniture designer (died 1773)
     * Jin Nong, Chinese painter of mei blossoms, one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (died 1763/1764)
     * Arnold Frans Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter specialized in cabinet pictures of landscapes and battle scenes (died 1719)
     * Huang Shen, Chinese painter (died 1772)
     * Pieter Vanderlyn, American colonial painter (died 1778)
     * Jacob van Huysum, Dutch botanical artist (died 1740)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 3 – Bernhard Keil, Danish painter (born 1624)
  * June – Juriaen van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1632)
  * September 10 – Willem Wissing, Dutch portrait artist (born 1656)
  * October 18 – Pietro Liberi, Italian painter nicknamed il Libertino (born 1605)
  * November 18 – Anton Janson, Dutch typographer and printmaker (born 1620)
  * date unknown
     * Samuel Bernard, French miniature painter and engraver (born 1615)
     * Giacomo di Castro, Italian painter (born 1624)
     * François Collignon, French engraver, print-seller and publisher (born 1609)
     * Angelo Michele Colonna, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1604)
     * Nicolas Frémery, French sculptor (date of birth unknown)
     * Simon de Leal Leon, Spanish painter (born 1610)
     * Marco Liberi, Italian painter of mythologic and historic cabinet paintings (born 1640)
     * Hubertus Quellinus, Flemish Baroque engraver (born 1619)
     * Francesco Rosa, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
  