Events from the year 1690 in art.

Events

• 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

• 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 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, 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)