1708 in art

none August 2026 thumb|Claude Boutet's 7-color and 12-color color circles, c.1708 1708 art Events from the year 1708 in art. 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 Godfrey Kneller – Portrait of John Smith 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)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pompeo-Girolamo-Batoni Pompeo Girolamo Batoni Encyclopædia Britannica 3 August 2026 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, English 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 marine painter (born 1644) April 6 – Willem van Ingen, Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy (born 1651) April 19 – Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi, Italian woman composer and painter active in Bologna (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) Jan van Kessel the Younger, Flemish painter active in Spain (born 1654) probable Michiel Maddersteg, Dutch painter (born 1662) Pietro da Pietri, Italian painter of an altarpiece for Santa Maria in Via Lata (born 1663) Zou Zhe, Chinese Qing dynasty painter (born 1636) References Category:Years of the 18th century in art Category:1700s in art