1611 in art

Events

• The painter Agostino Tassi rapes his pupil Artemisia Gentileschi.

Paintings

• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Frances Howard, Countess of Hertford
• Hendrik Goltzius - Mercury
• Frans Hals - Jacobus Zaffius
• Peter Paul Rubens - The Elevation of the Cross
• Joachim Wtewael - ''Perseus and Andromeda''

Births

• February 24 - William Dobson, English portrait painter
• March 15 - Jan Fyt, Flemish animal painter and etcher
• April 17 - Simone Pignoni, Italian painter of both licentious then later pious works
• August 4 - Jan van den Hoecke, Antwerp painter and draftsman
• date unknown
• *Nicolas Baudesson, French flower painter
• *Giovanni Battista Bolognini, Italian painter and engraver
• *Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, painter
• *Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist
• *Giovanni Francesco Cassana, Italian portrait painter
• *Baldassare Franceschini, late Italian Baroque painter of frescoes
• *Muyan, Chinese Chan monk and calligrapher
• *Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting
• *Francesco Guarino, Italian painter active mainly in the mountainous area east of Naples called Irpinia
• *Francesco Quaini, Italian painter of quadratura
• probable
• *Antonio de Pereda, Spanish painter
• *Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian who painted with unresolved dynamism and from awkward perspectives
• *Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter
• *Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Italian painter
• - Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet – Dutch painter

Deaths

• January - Anton Möller, German painter
• August - Bartholomeus Spranger, Flemish Northern Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher
• date unknown
• *Luigi Benfatto, Italian painter, nephew of Paolo Veronese
• *Sun Kehong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet
• *Camillo Mariani, Italian sculptor of the early Baroque
• *Barthélemy Prieur, French sculptor
• *Sampson Strong, Dutch-born portrait painter
• *Nicolas van Houy, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Marco Vecellio, Italian painter, nephew of Titian
• probable
• *Ludovico Buti, Italian painter active mostly in Florence
• *Jan Soens, Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch