1696 in art

A sculpture of a walking horse now attributed to Giovanni Francesco Susini (c. 1585 – c. 1653), is sold as a work by Susini's master Giambologna by the art dealer Marcus Forchondt in Antwerp to Prince Johann Adam Andreas I von Liechtenstein.

• Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – The Market Square at Haarlem with the St. Bavo
• Jacob de Heusch – River View with the Ponte Rotto (Brunswick Gallery, Romer)

• Peter Van Dievoet - The White Lamb (Brussels)

• January 5 – Giuseppe Galli Bibiena, Italian designer/painter (died 1757)
• March – Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer, German Rococo stuccoist and sculptor (died 1770)
• March 5 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (died 1770)
• March 31 – Mattia Bortoloni, Italian Rococo painter (died 1750)
• date unknown
  • Laurent Delvaux, French sculptor (died 1778)
  • Kim Du-ryang, Korean genre works painter of the mid Joseon period (died 1763)
  • Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu (died 1755)
  • Francesco de Mura, Italian painter of portraits and frescoes (died 1782)
  • August Querfurt, Austrian painter (died 1761)
  • Pieter Jan Snyers, Flemish painter (died 1757)
  • Jean-Joseph Vinache, French sculptor (died 1754)
  • Carlo Zimech, Maltese priest and painter (died 1766)^[1]
• probable
  • Roland Paradis, silversmith (died 1754)
  • 1696/1697: Gerard Vandergucht, English born engraver and art dealer (died 1776)

• July 22 – Hendrik van Minderhout, Dutch seascape painter (born 1632)
• December 13 – Georg Matthäus Vischer, cartographer, topographer and engraver (born 1628)
• date unknown
  • Gian Pietro Bellori, Italian painter, antiquarian and biographer of artists (born 1613)
  • Esteban Márquez de Velasco, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1652)
  • Charles Philippe Dieussart, Dutch architect and sculptor (born 1625)
  • Jean Baptiste Mathey, French architect and painter (born 1630)
  • Emilio Taruffi, Italian painter of canvases and altarpieces who was assassinated (born 1633)
• probable
  • Dirck Helmbreker, Dutch Baroque painter and draughtsman (born 1633)
  • Jacob Huysmans, Flemish portrait painter (born 1633)
  • Jan Vermeer van Utrecht, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1630)