1681 in art

March 30 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish art collector, painter, draughtsman, engraver (died 1752)
April 9 – Nicolas Edelinck, French-born engraver, son of Gerard Edelinck (died 1767)
April 18 – Girolamo Donnini, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1743)
May 23 – Jacopo Zoboli, Italian etcher and painter of altarpieces and portraits (died 1767)
December 14 – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet, and composer (died 1753)
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- Francesco Conti, Italian Venetian painter (died 1760)
- Johann Jakob Frey the Elder, Swiss engraver (died 1752)
- Peter Monamy, English marine painter (died 1749)
- Girolamo Odam, Italian painter, pastel portraitist and landscape artist, as well as wood engraver (died 1718)

February 11 – Gerard Soest, Dutch painter, father of Gerard ter Borch (born 1600)
March 12
- Giuseppe Bonati, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Rome and Ferrara (born 1635)
- Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch genre and portrait painter (born 1635)
April 12 – Pietro Paolini, Italian painter of still lifes and cabinet pictures (born 1603)
April 23 - Justus Sustermans, Flemish painter in the Baroque style (born 1597)
June 1 – Cornelis Saftleven, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (born 1607)
November 11 - Jacob Marrel, Dutch still-life painter (born 1613)
December 8 – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter (born 1617)
December 10 - Gaspard Marsy, French sculptor (born 1624)
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- Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, Italian painter from the Bolognese School (born 1609)
- Pierfrancesco Cittadini, Italian painter of still life (born 1616)
- Giacinto Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period (born 1606)
- Albrecht Kauw, Swiss still-life painter, cartographer and a painter of vedute (born 1621)
- Juan Rizi, Spanish painter (born 1600)
- Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting (born 1611)

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