1591 in art

Events

• Antiveduto Grammatica leaves the studio of Giovanni Domenico Angelini to set up as an independent artist.
• William Scrots' anamorphic portrait of King Edward VI of England causes a sensation when it is exhibited at Whitehall Palace.

Works

• Giuseppe Arcimboldo - Vertumnus
• Abraham Bloemaert - Niobe
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - ''Sir Francis Drake wearing the Drake jewel''

Births

• January 12 - Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker
• February 8 - Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino)), Italian painter
• March 19 - Dirck Hals, Dutch painter of festivals and ballroom scenes
• date unknown
• *Lucas de Wael, Flemish painter active mainly in Genoa
• *Jacques Fouquier, Flemish landscape painter
• *Giovanni Antonio Lelli, Italian painter of the Baroque period
• *Bartlomiej Strobel, painter
• *Cornelis Vroom, Dutch painter, known for landscapes and seascapes, son of reverse-named Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom
• probable
• *Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, Dutch painter
• *Valentin de Boulogne, French painter

Deaths

• March 17 - Jost Amman, Swiss illustrator
• May 3 - Antonio Abondio, Italian sculptor, best known as a medallist and as the pioneer of the coloured wax relief portrait miniature
• October 3 - Vincenzo Campi, Italian painter
• November 30 - Johan Gregor van der Schardt, Dutch-born sculptor working in Denmark
• date unknown
• *Bernardino Campi, Italian Renaissance painter
• *Giovanni Battista Naldini, Italian late-Mannerist painter in Florence
• probable - Crispin van den Broeck, Flemish painter