1681 in art
# 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)
