1679 in art

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Events from the year 1679 in art.

Events

(unknown)

Works

Jan van Kessel the Younger – *Portrait of a family in a garden*. In this group the painter portrays himself at the window.

François de Troy – Portrait of Nils Bielke
Cornelius Jansen (attributed) – Memorial painting of Isaac Bargrave in Canterbury Cathedral
Jan van Kessel – Portrait of a family in a garden

Publications

First part of Jieziyuan Huazhuan ("Manual of the Mustard Seed Garden"), a manual on landscape painting, published in China

Births

January 27 – Jean-François de Troy, French painter (died 1752)
April 2 - Marcellus Laroon the Younger, English painter and draughtsman (died 1772)
April 24 - Francesco Mancini, Italian painter (died 1758)
date unknown
- Elias Baeck, German painter and engraver (died 1747)
- Giuseppe Dallamano, Italian painter of quadratura in Turin (died 1758)
- Francesco Fernandi, Italian painter (died 1740)

Deaths

January 23 – Girolamo Forabosco, Italian painter (born 1605)
January 29 – Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter of portraitures, altarpieces and religious works (born 1609)
February 3 (bur.) – Jan Steen, Dutch genre painter (born 1626)
February 27 (bur.) – Joan Carlile, English professional portrait painter (born c. 1606)
March 27 – Abraham Mignon, Dutch flower painter born at Frankfurt (born 1640)
April 22 – Giovanni Battista Passeri, Italian painter of genre and still life paintings (born 1610)
June 15 – Guillaume Courtois, French painter and etcher (born 1628)
October - Barent Avercamp, Dutch painter (born 1612)
December
- Jan van de Cappelle, Dutch Golden Age painter of seascapes and winter landscapes (born 1626)
- Jan Victors, Dutch painter of subjects from the Bible (born 1619)
date unknown
- Baldassare Bianchi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1612)
- Tomas de Aguiar, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (born unknown)
- Josse de Corte, French sculptor (born 1627)
- Felipe Diricksen, Spanish Baroque painter primarily of portraits and religious paintings (born 1590)
- Robert Streater, English landscape, history, still-life and portrait artist, architectural painter and etcher (born 1621)