1708 in art

• 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) • 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==