1621 in art

Events

• Dutch painter Johannes van der Beeck is jailed for failing to pay alimony to his former wife Neeltgen van Camp.

Paintings

• Giovanni Francesco Barbieri – The Suicide of Cleopatra
• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger – Susanna Temple
• Guercino
• *Aurora
• *Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
• Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri – Virgin and Child
• Jacob Jordaens – The Family of the Artist
• Dirck van Baburen – Youth Playing a Small Whistle
• Domenico Zampieri – ''The Assumption of Mary Magdalene into Heaven''

Births

• May 25 – David Beck, Dutch portrait painter
• June
• *Allaert van Everdingen, Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint
• *Isaac van Ostade, Dutch genre and landscape painter
• August 19 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, painter of the Dutch Golden Age
• date unknown
• *Giacinto Brandi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome and Naples
• *Fabrizio Chiari, painter and engraver
• *Jacques Courtois, French painter
• *Giuseppe Diamantini, Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period
• *Albrecht Kauw, Swiss still-life painter, cartographer and a painter of vedute
• *Matthew Snelling, English miniature painter
• *Robert Streater, English landscape, history, still-life and portrait artist, architectural painter, and etcher
• *Hendrick van Balen the Younger, Flemish painter
• *Jan Baptist Weenix, painter of the Dutch Golden Age
• probable – Giulio Cesare Milani, Italian painter

Deaths

• April 1 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter
• May 15 – Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch sculptor and architect
• date unknown
• *Cornelis Boel, Flemish draughtsman and engraver
• *Louis de Caullery, French painter
• *Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter
• *Marzio di Colantonio, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes, and fresco decorations
• *Dirk Pietersz, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Terenzio Terenzi, Italian painter
• *Giovanni Vasanzio, Dutch-born architect, garden designer and engraver