Events from the year 1676 in art.

Events

• December 10 - Giuseppe Ghezzi exhibits a number of privately owned works by Venetian masters, borrowed from their owners, in the cloisters of San Salvatore in Rome.
• The portraitist Godfrey Kneller, together with his brother Johann Zacharias, moves from Germany to London, where he settles.

Works

• Claude Lorrain - Aeneas taking leave of Dido in Carthage
• Grinling Gibbons - Statue of King Charles II in Roman costume (gilded bronze)
• Simon Ushakov - Theodore Stratelates

Births

• February 2 - Francesco Maria Raineri, Italian sculptor of battle scenes, landscapes, and veduta with historical or mythologic figures (died 1758)
• April 24 - Johann Georg Beck, German engraver (died 1722)
• June 5 - Marco Ricci, Italian veduta painter (died 1729)
• date unknown
  • Pierre-Jacques Cazes, French historical painter (died 1754)
  • Sarah Hoadly, English portrait painter (died 1743)
  • Théobald Michau (or Micho), Flemish painter (died 1765)
  • Jeong Seon, Korean landscape painter (died 1759)

Deaths

• February 14 - Abraham Bosse, French artist, printmaker in etching, and watercolour (born 1602-1604)
• May 20? - Jacques Courtois, French painter (born 1621)
• August 5 - Pierre Patel ("le bon Patel"), French Baroque era painter (born 1605)
• September - Pieter de Keyser, Dutch Golden Age sculptor and architect (born 1595)
• October 13 - Juan de Arellano, Spanish painter (born 1614)
• date unknown
  • Salvatore Castiglione, Italian painter of landscapes and pastoral subjects (born 1620)
  • Giovan Battista Langetti, Italian painter (born 1625)
  • Pierre Prieur, French enamel painter (born 1626)
  • Santo Rinaldi, Italian painter of battle scenes, landscapes, and vedute (born 1620)
  • Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella, French engraver (born c.1641)
  • Domenicus van Tol, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1635)
• probable
  • Bartolommeo Coriolano, Italian engraver (born 1599)
  • Abel Schrøder, Danish woodcarver (born 1602)