1623 in art
Events from the year 1623 in art.
Events
- The Raphael Cartoons are bought from a Genoese collection by agents for the future King Charles I of England.
Works
Image:First Folio.jpg|thumb|right|Droeshout – Portrait of Shakespeare from the 'First Folio'- Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Self-portrait
- Martin Droeshout – Engraved portrait for the 'First Folio' of William Shakespeare's plays
- Orazio Gentileschi – The Annunciation
- Guercino – The Burial of St. Petronilla
- Dirck Hals – Musicians
- Daniël Mijtens – James Hamilton, Earl of Arran
- Peter Paul Rubens – Self-portrait
- Dirck van Baburen
- *Cimon and Pero
- *Concert
- *Crowning With Thorns
- *Loose Company
- *Prometheus Being Chained by Vulcan
- *Saint Sebastian Tended by Irene
- Anthony van Dyck –
- *Portrait of the Lomellini family
- *Self Portrait
- Gerard van Honthorst
- *Merry Company
- *The Prodigal Son
- *The Steadfast Philosopher
- Diego Velázquez
- *Portrait of Philip IV in Armour
- *''The Investiture Of St Ildefonso With The Chasuble''
Births
- May 30 - Wallerant Vaillant, Flemish Baroque painter and mezzotint engraver
- August 25 - Filippo Lauri, Italian painter, Principe of the Accademia di San Luca
- date unknown
- *Jürgen Ovens, Danish or German Baroque painter and engraver
- *Francesco Barbieri, Italian Baroque painter
- *Giovanni Battista Caccioli Italian figure painter in quadratura
- *Francisco de Palacios, Spanish Baroque painter
- *Francesco di Maria, Italian painter active mainly in Naples
- *Pieter Janssens Elinga, Dutch painter
- *Giovanni Ghisolfi, Italian painter of veduta and capricci, mainly landscapes
- *Giacomo Lauri, Italian engraver
- probable
- *Thomas Simon, English medallist
- *Mei Qing, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Qing dynasty
- *Reinier Nooms, Dutch marine painter and etcher
Deaths
- January 11 - Pieter van Mierevelt, Dutch Golden Age painter
- December - Rodrigo de Villandrando, court painter during the reign of Philip III of Spain
- date unknown
- *Andrea Andreani, Italian wood engraver and early exponent of chiaroscuro
- *Francesco Brizio, Italian painter and engraver of the Bolognese School
- *Agostino Bugiardini, Italian sculptor
- *Johann Theodor de Bry, Flemish painter and engraver
- *Domenico Fetti, Italian painter
- *Jacob van Musscher, Dutch Golden Age painter