1690 in art
# 1690 in art

Events from the year 1690 in art.

## Events

* Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer leaves France for England, where he produces a series of decorative panels for Montagu House, Bloomsbury.
* Approximate date – Dutch Golden Age artist Gerard de Lairesse goes blind due to congenital syphilis and gives up painting in favour of art theory.

## Paintings

* Ludolf Bakhuizen – Ships in distress in raging storm (Rijksmuseum)
* Richard Brakenburgh – Peasant scenes
* Melchior d'Hondecoeter – De Menagerie (approx. date – Rijksmuseum)
* Hishikawa Moronobu – Beauty looking back
* Charles Le Brun – Adoration of the Shepherds
* Ricardo do Pilar – Christ in Martyrdom (Monastery of São Bento, Rio de Janeiro)
* Jan van Kessel the Younger – Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark
* Spinoza – Virgin del Carmen and the Child Jesus (Church of the Holy Kings, Metztitlán, Mexico; painting destroyed by fire 1998)
* Altarpiece of Strandebarm Church, Norway

## Births

* January 22 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (died 1743)
* September 23 – Giuseppe Bazzani, Italian Rococo painter (died 1769)
* probable
   * Lorenzo Fratellini, Italian painter of miniature portraits (died 1729)
   * Claes Lang, Finnish painter (died 1761)
   * Philip Mercier, portrait painter (died 1760)
   * Michael Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter (died 1747)
   * Ivan Nikitich Nikitin, Russian painter of portraits and battles (died 1741)
   * Orazio Solimena, Italian painter (died 1789)

## Deaths

* February 22 – Charles Le Brun, French painter (born 1619)
* March
   * Bendix Grodtschilling, Danish painter and carpenter (born 1620)
   * Abraham van Beijeren, Dutch painter (born 1620)
* March 17 – Jan van Mieris, Dutch painter (born 1660)
* April 25 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (born 1610)
* June 11 - Frederik Bloemaert, Dutch engraver (born c.1614)
* July 15 – Carlo Antonio Bussi, Swiss painter (born 1658)
* October 15
   * Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter (born 1622)
   * Adam Frans van der Meulen, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in battle scenes (born 1632)
* date unknown
   * Giacomo Barri, Italian painter and printmaker (born unknown)
   * Benjamin Block, German–Hungarian portrait painter (born 1631)
   * Abraham Brueghel, Flemish painter from the famous Brueghel family of artists (born 1631)
   * Antonio Castrejon, Spanish painter (born 1625)
   * Tommaso Costa, Italian painter (born 1634)
   * Giovanni Stefano Danedi, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1608/1612)
   * Francesco di Maria, Italian painter active mainly in Naples (born 1623)
   * Frederick Kerseboom, German painter (born 1632)
   * Francesco Pianta, Italian sculptor (born 1634)
   * Herman Verelst, Dutch Golden Age portrait and still life painter (born 1641)
   * Yun Shouping, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty (born 1633)
* probable
   * Pietro Lucatelli, Italian painter active in Rome (born 1630)
   * Wang Wu, Chinese painter and poet of the Qing Dynasty (born 1632)
