1708 in art

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Events

• Flemish painter and engraver Pieter Casteels III comes to work in Britain.
• Sculptor Ferdinand Brokoff sets up his own studio.

Paintings

• Enoch Seeman - Group portrait of the Bisset family

Publications

• Roger de Piles - Cours de peinture par principes avec un balance de peintres

Births

• January 25 – Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter (d. 1787)
• June 20 – François-Elie Vincent, Swiss painter of portrait miniatures (d. 1790)
• date unknown
  • Francis Hayman, painter and illustrator (d. 1776)
  • Giuseppe Ghedini, Italian painter and later a university professor of painting (d. 1791)
  • Mina Kolokolnikov, Russian painter and teacher (d. 1775)
  • Johann Jakob Zeiller – Austrian fresco painter (d. 1783)

Deaths

• April – Abraham Storck, Dutch landscape and maritime painter (b. 1644)
• April 19 - Angiola Teresa Moratori Scanabecchi, Italian composer and painter (b. 1662)
• June 10 – Romeyn de Hooghe, Dutch engraver and caricaturist (b. 1645)
• August 16 – Michel Corneille the Younger, French painter, etcher and engraver (b. 1642)
• September 6 – Evert Collier, Dutch painter (b. 1640)
• October 22 – Cesare Pronti, Italian painter of quadratura and allegorical figures (b. 1626)
• November 17 – Ludolf Bakhuysen, Dutch painter (b. 1630)
• November 20 – Paul Strudel, Austrian sculptor, architect, engineer, and painter (b. 1648)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Ventura Borghese, Italian painter (b. 1640)
  • Francesco Ferrari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1634)
  • Paolo Antonio Paderna, Italian painter of born in Bologna (b. 1649)
  • Teresa Scannabecchi, Italian woman painter active in Bologna (b. 1662)
  • Orazio Talami, Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna (b. 1624)
  • Zou Zhe, Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty (b. 1636)
• probable – Pietro da Pietri, Italian painter of an altarpiece for Santa Maria in Via Lata (b. 1663)