1708 in art explained

Events from the year 1708 in art.

Events

• Flemish painter and engraver Pieter Casteels III comes to work in Britain.
• Czech sculptor Ferdinand Brokoff sets up his own studio.

Paintings

• Michael Dahl – Portrait of George Mackenzie, 1st Earl of Cromartie
• Antonino Grano – Frescoes in Church of Santa Maria della Pietà in Kalsa, Palermo
• Enoch Seeman
  • Group portrait of the Bisset family
  • Self-portrait

Drawings

• Portrait of Anne Hathaway by Nathaniel Curzon

Publications

• Roger de Piles – Cours de peinture par principes avec un balance de peintres

Births

• January 25 – Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter (died 1787)
• June 20 – François-Elie Vincent, Swiss painter of portrait miniatures (died 1790)
• December 18 – John Collier, English caricaturist and satirist (died 1786)
• date unknown
  • Francis Hayman, English painter and illustrator (died 1776)
  • Giuseppe Ghedini, Italian painter and later a university professor of painting (died 1791)
  • Mina Kolokolnikov, Russian painter and teacher (died 1775)
  • Johann Jakob Zeiller, Austrian fresco painter (died 1783)

Deaths

• April – Abraham Storck, Dutch landscape and marine painter (born 1644)
• April 6 – Willem van Ingen, Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy (born 1651)
• April 19 – Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi, Italian woman composer and painter active in Bologna (born 1662)
• June 10 – Romeyn de Hooghe, Dutch engraver and caricaturist (born 1645)
• August 16 – Michel Corneille the Younger, French painter, etcher and engraver (born 1642)
• September 6 – Evert Collier, Dutch painter (born 1640)
• October 22 – Cesare Pronti, Italian painter of quadratura and allegorical figures (born 1626)
• October 26 – Johann Kerseboom, German portrait painter (born unknown)
• November 17 – Ludolf Bakhuysen, Dutch painter (born 1630)
• November 20 – Paul Strudel, Austrian sculptor, architect, engineer and painter (born 1648)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Ventura Borghese, Italian painter (born 1640)
  • Francesco Ferrari, Italian painter and architect (born 1634)
  • Catharina Oostfries, Dutch glass painter (born 1636)
  • Paolo Antonio Paderna, Italian painter of Bologna (born 1649)
  • Jan van Kessel the Younger, Flemish painter active in Spain (born 1654)
• probable
  • Michiel Maddersteg, Dutch painter (born 1662)
  • Pietro da Pietri, Italian painter of an altarpiece for Santa Maria in Via Lata (born 1663)
  • Zou Zhe, Chinese Qing dynasty painter (born 1636)