1688 in art

March 16 – Anna Maria Garthwaite, English textile designer (died 1763)
April 15 – Johann Georg Bergmüller, Bavarian painter of frescoes, of the Baroque (died 1762)
April 28 – Giacomo Boni, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (died 1766)
May 6 – Charles Parrocel, French painter and engraver and a specialist in battle and hunt paintings (died 1752)
July 19 – Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian Jesuit Brother, missionary in China, painter at the imperial court (died 1766)
September 6 – Antonio Corradini, Venetian Rococo sculptor (died 1752)
September 12 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Bohemian sculptor (died 1731)
October 29 – Amalia Pachelbel, German painter and engraver (died 1723)
November 21 – Antonio Visentini, Italian designer, painter and engraver (died 1782)
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- Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, French line-engraver (died 1754)
- François Dumont, French sculptor (died 1726)
- Gerolamo Mengozzi Colonna, Italian quadratura painter (died 1774)
- José de Ibarra, Mexican painter (died 1756)
- Ercole Graziani the Younger, Italian painter (died 1765)
- Edme Jeaurat, French engraver (died 1738)
- Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (died 1771)
- François Lemoyne, French Rococo painter (died 1737)
- Francesco Maria Schiaffino, Italian sculptor (died 1763)
- Gao Xiang, Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (died 1753)

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