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1708 in art

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Events from the year 1708 in art.

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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, 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 maritime painter (born 1644)
  • April 19 – Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi, Italian composer and painter (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)
  • Teresa Scannabecchi, Italian woman painter active in Bologna (born 1662)
  • Orazio Talami, Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna (born 1624)
  • Jan van Kessel, junior, Flemish-Spanish painter (born 1654)
  • probable
  • Bernard Lens I, Dutch painter and writer of religious treatises (born 1631)
  • Michiel Maddersteg, Dutch painter (born 1662)
  • Pietro da Pietri, Italian painter of an altarpiece for Santa Maria in Via Lata (born 1663)
  • Willem van Ingen, Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy (born 1651)
  • Zou Zhe, Chinese painter of the Qing Dynasty (born 1636)

    • References

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