1708 in art

Events

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Paintings

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Births

* January 25 - Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter (d. 1787)
* Francis Hayman, painter and illustrator (d. 1776)
* François-Elie Vincent, Swiss painter of portrait miniatures (d. 1790)
* Giuseppe Ghedini - Italian painter and later a university professor of painting (d. 1791)
* Mina Kolokolnikov - Russian painter and teacher (d. 1775)
* Johann Jakob Zeiller - Austrian fresco painter (d. 1783)

Deaths

* September 6 - Evert Collier, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
* November 17 - Ludolf Bakhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1630)
* Romeyn de Hooghe - late Dutch Baroque engraver and caricaturist (b. 1645)
* Abraham Storck - Dutch landscape and maritime painter of the Baroque era (b. 1644)
* Elias van den Broeck (or Broek), Dutch artist (b. 1650)
* Francesco Ferrari - Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period (b. 1634)
* Giovanni Ventura Borghese - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. "unknown")
* Paolo Antonio Paderna - Italian painter of the Baroque period born in Bologna (b. 1649)
* Cesare Pronti - Italian painter of quadratura and allegorical figures (b. 1626)
* Teresa Scannabecchi - Italian woman painter of the Baroque active in Bologna (b. 1662)
* Orazio Talami - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna (b. 1624)
* Michel Corneille the Younger - French painter, etcher and engraver (b. 1642)
* Paul Strudel - Austrian sculptor, architect, engineer, and painter (b. 1648)
* (d. 1708,1716, or 1721): Pietro da Pietri - Italian painter of an altarpiece for Santa Maria in Via Lata (b. 1663)