1686 in art

Events

• Pierre Granier is commissioned to provide a new right arm for the recently discovered Jupiter de Smyrne.
• Bogdan Saltanov becomes head of the painting workshop of the Kremlin Armoury.

  Works

• Benedetto Gennari – The Death of Cleopatra
• Jacques Rousseau – Wall paintings at Montagu House, Bloomsbury
• – Hanging painting of the Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva at the Geumdangsa, South Korea
• – Statue of James II

Births

• March 7 – Francesco Antonio Xaverio Grue, Italian potter and painter
• March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French Rococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer
• May 30 – Antonina Houbraken, Dutch printmaker and drafter
• August 8 – Wenzel Lorenz Reiner, Czech Baroque painter
• August 18 – Peter von Bemmel, German landscape painter and etcher
• August 27 – Agostino Cornacchini, Italian sculptor and painter
• September 29 – Cosmas Damian Asam, German painter and architect during the late Baroque period
• October 15 – Alessandro Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter
• date unknown
• * Gerhard Bockman, Dutch portrait painter and mezzotint engraver
• * Carlo Carlone, Italian painter
• * Antonio Consetti, Italian historical painter
• * Louise-Magdeleine Horthemels, French engraver
• * François Hutin, French painter, sculptor and engraver
• * Giovanni Pietro Ligario, Italian painter of historical pictures for churches and private collections
• * Okumura Masanobu, Japanese print designer, book publisher and painter
• * Wang Shishen, Chinese painter
• * Zou Yigui, Chinese Qing dynasty painter
• * Zhang Zongcang, Chinese Qing dynasty painter
• probable – Li Shan, Chinese painter

  Deaths

• January 2 – Frederik de Moucheron, Dutch Golden Age landscape painter
• January 17 – Carlo Dolci, Italian painter of chiefly sacred subjects
• February 5 – Matthias Rauchmiller, German sculptor active in Vienna
• May – Jacques d'Arthois, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in landscapes
• June 25 – Simon Ushakov, Russian painter
• July 11 – Michel Anguier, French sculptor
• date unknown
• * Antonio Busca, Italian painter active in Lombardy
• * Carlo Cesio, Italian painter active in Rome
• * Nicolas Cochin, French draughtsman and engraver
• * Giovanni Battista Marmi, Italian painter
• * Pieter Pietersz Nedek, Dutch Golden Age painter
• * Antonio Raggi, Italian sculptor
• * Dirk Stoop, Dutch Golden Age painter