title: 1698 in art
text: # 1698 in art
  
  Events from the year 1698 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * September – Maximilian II Emanuel, Prince-Elector of Bavaria, purchases Rubens' Adoration of the Magi from Gijsbert van Ceulen.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Nicolò Fumo – Fallen Christ (wooden sculpture)
  * Hyacinthe Rigaud – Self-portrait in a turban
  
  ## Births
  
  * May 17 – Gio Nicola Buhagiar, Maltese painter (died 1752)
  * May 29 – Edmé Bouchardon, French sculptor (died 1762)
  * September 15 – Pier Francesco Guala, Italian painter active for the most part in the region of his place of birth, Casale Monferrato (died 1757)
  * October 13 – Giacomo Ceruti, Italian painter of peasants (died 1767)
  * October 30 – Paul Troger, Austrian painter, draughtsman and printmaker (died 1762)
  * date unknown
     * Benoît Audran the Younger, French engraver (died 1772)
     * Gaudenzio Botti, Italian painter, mainly active in Brescia (died 1778)
     * Felice Cappelletti, Italian painter active in Verona (died 1738)
     * Antonio David, Italian portrait painter, especially of the House of Stuart (died 1750)
     * Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor (died 1768)
     * Louis de Moni, Dutch genre painter (died 1771)
     * Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer, German Baroque stucco plasterer of the Wessobrunner School (died 1763)
     * Johann Preissler, engraver (died 1771)
  * probable
     * Giovanni Francesco Braccioli, Italian painter, mainly active in Ferrara (died 1762)
     * Susanna Drury, Irish painter chiefly noted for her watercolours (died 1770)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * April 27 – Jacopo Chiavistelli, Italian painter of quadratura (born 1618/1621)
  * June 1 – Maurelio Scanavini, Italian painter, mainly active in Ferrara (born 1665)
  * June 10 – Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch artist (born 1638)
  * September 21 – Catherine Duchemin, French flower and fruit painter (born 1630)
  * October 6 – Johann Carl Loth, German painter active in Venice (born 1632)
  * November – Rombout Verhulst, sculptor from Brabant (born 1624)
  * December 16 – Simone Pignoni, Italian painter of both licentious then later pious works (born 1611)
  * date unknown
     * Francesco Barbieri, Italian painter (born 1623)
     * Johann Anton Eismann, Austrian painter (born 1604)
     * Teresa Maria Languasco, Italian painter and a monk (born 1651)
     * Hâfiz Osman, Ottoman calligrapher (born 1642)
     * Pieter Peutemans, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1641)
     * Zha Shibiao, landscape painter and calligrapher from Anhui (born 1615)
  