Events from the year 1699 in art.

Events

• The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture holds the first of a series of salons at the Louvre Palace.

Paintings

• Alexis Simon Belle – Allegorical portrait of James Francis Edward Stuart and his sister Louisa Maria Teresa Stuart
• Alexandre-François Desportes – The artist as a hunter (approximate date)
• Willem Frederiksz van Royen – The Carrot
• The Kangxi Emperor of China at age 45 (silk painting)
• Monastery of Moisei, Romania (icons)

Births

• February 15 – Giovanni Maria Morlaiter, Italian Rococo sculptor (died 1781)
• February 17 – Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Prussian painter and architect (died 1753)
• March 26 – Hubert-François Gravelot, French illustrator (died 1773)
• May 28 – Laurent Cars, French designer and engraver (died 1771)
• October – Giuseppe Grisoni, Italian painter (died 1769)
• November 2 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (died 1779)
• November 25 – Pierre Subleyras, French painter, active during the late-Baroque and early-Neoclassic period (died 1749)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Antonio Capello, Italian painter (died 1741)
  • Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi, Italian painter, 1756 co-founder of the Venetian Academy (died 1760)
  • Giuseppe Marchesi, Italian painter active mainly in Bologna (died 1771)
  • Giuseppe Nogari, Venetian painter of the Rococo, where he painted mainly half-body portraits (died 1763)
  • Alexis Peyrotte, French decorator painter (died 1769)
  • Giovanni Agostino Ratti, Italian cabinet painter, engraver, and constructed scenography (died 1755)
  • Ivan Vishnyakov, Russian painter (died 1761)
• probable (born 1699/1707) – Stefano Pozzi, Italian painter, designer, draughtsman and decorator (died 1768)
• probable (born 1699/1710) – Hristofor Zhefarovich, Serbian and Bulgarian painter, engraver and writer (died 1753)

Deaths

• January 3 – Mattia Preti, Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta (born 1613)
• May – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish landscape painter (born 1626)
• May 22 – Giovanni Battista Buonocore, Italian painter (born 1643)
• October 8 (bur.) – Mary Beale, English portrait painter (born 1633)
• date unknown
  • Tommaso Misciroli, Italian painter from Faenza (born 1636)
  • Pandolfo Reschi, Polish-born Italian painter of battle scenes and landscapes (born 1643)
  • Pedro Roldán, Spanish sculptor (born 1624)
• possible – Joannes van der Brugghen, Flemish Baroque painter and engraver (born 1649)