1685 in art

Paintings '' by Godfrey Kneller. – The Last Supper • Richard Brakenburgh – Feast of St Nicholas • Claudio Coello – St Dominic of Guzman (approximate date) • Aert de Gelder – Esther and Mordecai • Godfrey Kneller – Self-Portrait • Andrea Pozzo - Dome at Sant'Ignazio • Simon Ushakov – The Last Supper Sculpture • Pierre Lepautre – Faune au chevreau ==Births==

• March 17 – Jean-Marc Nattier, French painter (died 1766) • November 5 - Peter Angelis, French painter (died 1734) • November 15 – Balthasar Denner, German portrait painter (died 1749) • date unknown • Charles Cressent, French furniture-maker, sculptor and fondeur-ciseleur of the régence style (died 1768) • Pietro Paolo Cristofari, Italian artist responsible for a number of the mosaics in St. Peter's Basilica (died 1743) • Bernardo Germán de Llórente, Spanish painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1757) • Francesco Sleter, Italian painter active in England (died 1775) • Jan van Gool, Dutch painter and writer (died 1763) • probable • William Kent, architect and designer (died 1748) • Johann Georg Schmidt, Austrian Baroque painter (died 1748) ==Deaths==

• January – Herman Saftleven, Dutch painter (born 1609) • March 25 – Nicolas Robert, French miniaturist and engraver (born 1614) • May – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch genre painter (born 1610) • June 16 – Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter (born 1660) • August 8 – Giovanni Battista Salvi or Sassoferrato, Italian painter (born 1609) • September – Adam Colonia, Dutch painter working in England (born 1634) • October 2 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (born 1638) • October 3 – Juan Carreño de Miranda, Spanish painter (born 1614) • date unknown • Li Yin, Chinese painter, poet and calligrapher (born c.1610) • Giulio Trogli, Italian painter nicknamed il Paradosso ("the Paradox") (born 1613) • Jan Baptist van Heil, Flemish painter (born 1604) ==References==