1690 in art

• Jean-Baptiste Monnoyer leaves France for England, where he produces a series of decorative panels for Montagu House, Bloomsbury. • Approximate date – Dutch Golden Age artist Gerard de Lairesse goes blind due to congenital syphilis and gives up painting in favour of art theory. ==Paintings==

– Beauty looking back • Ludolf Bakhuizen – Ships in distress in raging storm (Rijksmuseum) • Richard Brakenburgh – Peasant scenes • Melchior d'Hondecoeter – De Menagerie (approx. date – Rijksmuseum) • Hishikawa Moronobu – Beauty looking back • Charles Le Brun – Adoration of the Shepherds • Ricardo do Pilar – Christ in Martyrdom (Monastery of São Bento, Rio de Janeiro) • Jan Siberechts – Landscape with Rainbow, Henley-on-Thames • Jan van Kessel the Younger – Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark • Spinoza – Virgin del Carmen and the Child Jesus (Church of the Holy Kings, Metztitlán, Mexico; painting destroyed by fire 1998) • Altarpiece of Strandebarm Church in Norway ==Births==

• January 22 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (died 1743) • September 23 – Giuseppe Bazzani, Italian Rococo painter (died 1769) • probable • Lorenzo Fratellini, Italian painter of miniature portraits (died 1729) • Claes Lang, Finnish painter (died 1761) • Philip Mercier, portrait painter (died 1760) • Michael Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter (died 1747) • Ivan Nikitich Nikitin, Russian painter of portraits and battles (died 1741) • Orazio Solimena, Italian painter (died 1789) ==Deaths==

• February 22 – Charles Le Brun, French painter (born 1619) • March • Bendix Grodtschilling, Danish painter and carpenter (born 1620) • Abraham van Beijeren, Dutch painter (born 1620) • March 17 – Jan van Mieris, Dutch painter (born 1660) • April 25 – David Teniers the Younger, Flemish painter (born 1610) • June 11 - Frederik Bloemaert, Dutch engraver (born c.1614) • July 15 – Carlo Antonio Bussi, Swiss painter (born 1658) • October 15 • Juan de Valdés Leal, Spanish painter (born 1622) • Adam Frans van der Meulen, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in battle scenes (born 1632) • date unknown • Giacomo Barri, Italian painter and printmaker (born unknown) • Benjamin Block, German–Hungarian portrait painter (born 1631) • Abraham Brueghel, Flemish painter from the famous Brueghel family of artists (born 1631) • Antonio Castrejon, Spanish painter (born 1625) • Tommaso Costa, Italian painter (born 1634) • Giovanni Stefano Danedi, Italian painter of frescoes (born 1608/1612) • Francesco di Maria, Italian painter active mainly in Naples (born 1623) • Frederick Kerseboom, German painter (born 1632) • Francesco Pianta, Italian sculptor (born 1634) • Herman Verelst, Dutch Golden Age portrait and still life painter (born 1641) • Yun Shouping, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty (born 1633) • probable • Pietro Lucatelli, Italian painter active in Rome (born 1630) • Wang Wu, Chinese painter and poet of the Qing Dynasty (born 1632) ==References==