1681 in art

– Apollo Chasing Daphne, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium • Caius Gabriel Cibber - Statue of Charles II, Soho Square • Jean Cotelle - Marriage at Cana (for Notre Dame de Paris) • Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Christ appearing to Mary Magdalen • Carlo Maratta - Apollo Chasing Daphne ==Births== • March 30 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish art collector, painter, draughtsman, engraver (died 1752) • April 9 – Nicolas Edelinck, French-born engraver, son of Gerard Edelinck (died 1767) • April 18 – Girolamo Donnini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1743) • May 23 – Jacopo Zoboli, Italian etcher and painter of altarpieces and portraits (died 1767) • December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer (died 1753) • date unknown • Francesco Conti, Italian Venetian painter (died 1760) • Johann Jakob Frey the Elder, Swiss engraver (died 1752) • Peter Monamy, English marine painter (died 1749) • Girolamo Odam, Italian painter, pastel portraitist and landscape artist, as well as wood engraver (died 1718) ==Deaths==

• February 11 – Gerard Soest, Dutch painter, father of Gerard ter Borch (born 1600) • March 12 • Giuseppe Bonati, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Ferrara (born 1635) • Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch genre and portrait painter (born 1635) • April 12 – Pietro Paolini, Italian painter of still lifes and cabinet pictures (born 1603) • April 23 - Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter in the Baroque style (born 1597) • June 1 – Cornelis Saftleven, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (born 1607) • November 11 - Jacob Marrel, Dutch still-life painter (born 1613) • December 8 – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter (born 1617) • December 10 - Gaspard Marsy, French sculptor (born 1624) • date unknown • Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, Italian painter from the Bolognese School (born 1609) • Pierfrancesco Cittadini, Italian painter of still life (born 1616) • Giacinto Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period (born 1606) • Albrecht Kauw, Swiss still-life painter, cartographer and a painter of vedute (born 1621) • Juan Rizi, Spanish painter (born 1600) • Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting (born 1611)