title: 1688 in art
text: # 1688 in art
  
  Events from the year 1688 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Matthias Steinl becomes ivory engraver at the imperial court in Vienna.
  * The Equestrian statue of Christian V by French sculptor Abraham-César Lamoureux is unveiled on Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen.
  
  ## Paintings
  
  * René-Antoine Houasse – Minerva teaching the Rhodians sculpture (Palace of Versailles)
  * Willem van de Velde the Younger – The Fleet at Sea
  * Willem van Mieris – A Seated Man
  
  ## Births
  
  * March 16 – Anna Maria Garthwaite, English textile designer (died 1763)
  * April 15 – Johann Georg Bergmüller, Bavarian painter of frescoes, of the Baroque (died 1762)
  * April 28 – Giacomo Boni, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1766)
  * May 6 – Charles Parrocel, French painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunt paintings (died 1752)
  * July 19 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the imperial court (died 1766)
  * September 6 – Antonio Corradini, Venetian Rococo sculptor (died 1752)
  * September 12 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Bohemian sculptor (died 1731)
  * October 29 – Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver (died 1723)
  * November 21 – Antonio Visentini, Italian designer, painter and engraver (died 1782)
  * date unknown
     * Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, French line-engraver (died 1754)
     * François Dumont, French sculptor (died 1726)
     * Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna, Italian quadratura painter (died 1774)
     * José de Ibarra, Mexican painter (died 1756)
     * Ercole Graziani the Younger, Italian painter (died 1765)
     * Edme Jeaurat, French engraver (died 1738)
     * Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (died 1771)
     * François Lemoyne, French Rococo painter (died 1737)
     * Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (died 1763)
     * Gao Xiang, Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (died 1753)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 11 – Cesare Gennari, Italian painter (born 1641)
  * March 9 – Claude Mellan, French engraver and painter (born 1598)
  * April 3 – Cosimo Fancelli, Italian sculptor (born 1620)
  * October – Philip de Koninck, Dutch landscape painter (born 1619)
  * October 13 – Pedro de Mena, Spanish sculptor (born 1628)
  * October 14 – Joachim von Sandrart, German art-historian and painter (born 1606)
  * December 8 – Thomas Flatman, English poet and miniature painter (born 1635)
  * date unknown
     * Giovanni Battista Benaschi, Italian painter and engraver active in the late-Renaissance period (born 1636)
     * Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, Spanish painter (born 1638)
     * Carlo Cane, Italian painter (born 1618)
  