1618 in art

Works

• Anthony van Dyck
• *Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak
• Jacob Jordaens
• *The Adoration of the Shepherds
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• Peter Paul Rubens
• *Charles the Bold
• *The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
• *The Union of Earth and Water
• Diego Velázquez
• *Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
• *The Farmers' Lunch
• *Old Woman Cooking Eggs
• *Three Musicians
• *''The Waterseller of Seville''

Births

• January 1 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter
• June 28 – Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver
• September 11 – Francesco Grue, Italian potter and painter
• September 14 – Peter Lely, Dutch portrait painter
• date unknown
• *Carlo Cane, Italian painter of the Baroque period
• *Gioseffo Danedi, Italian painter
• *Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, Italian painter and etcher
• *Cornelis Holsteyn, Dutch painter of historical allegories, portraits, and interior decorations
• *Hishikawa Moronobu, Japanese painter
• *Gong Xian, Chinese painter
• *Giovanni Pietro Possenti, Italian painter of battle scenes
• *Pieter Hermansz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age genre art painter
• probable
• * Ginevra Cantofoli, Italian painter
• * – Jacopo Chiavistelli, Italian painter of quadratura

Deaths

• February 21 – Vittorio Baldini, Italian engraver
• April 8 – Antonio Marziale Carracci, Italian painter
• May 24 – Cornelis IJsbrantsz Cussens, Dutch draughtsman and glass painter
• June 29 – Adriaen Collaert, Flemish engraver
• date unknown
• *Luis de Carvajal, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period
• *Ambrosius Francken I, Flemish painter
• *Giovanni Guerra, Italian draughtsman and painter
• *Paolo Camillo Landriani, Italian painter
• *Pietro Malombra, Italian painter
• *Giulio Mazzoni, Italian painter and stuccoist
• *Fillide Melandroni, Italian courtesan, model for Caravaggio
• *Camillo Rizzi, Italian painter
• *Ercole Setti, Italian engraver
• *Unkoku Togan, Japanese painter
• *Maffeo Verona, Italian painter