1624 in art

Events from the year 1624 in art.

Events

Anna Visscher marries Dominicus Booth van Wesel.
Caravaggio's painting of Supper at Emmaus is recorded as being in the collection of Marchese Patrizi.
Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck, trapped in the Sicilian city of Palermo during the 1624–1625 plague and quarantine there, produces five paintings of the city's patron Saint Rosalia, Saint Rosalia (Madrid), Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels (Houston), Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels (London), Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague–Stricken of Palermo (New York) and Saint Rosalia Crowned by Angels (Palermo), influential in the iconography of the subject.

Paintings

Births

January 15 - Rombout Verhulst, sculptor from Brabant
February 11 - Lambert Doomer, Dutch painter
November - Barent Fabritius, Dutch painter
date unknown
*Benito Manuel Agüero, Spanish painter of the Baroque period
*Valerio Castello, Italian painter
*Antonio Giusti, Italian painter, active mainly in Florence
*Bernhard Keil, Danish painter
*Jan Peeters I, Flemish seascape painter
*Antonio Raggi, Italian sculptor
*Pedro Roldán, Spanish sculptor
*Orazio Talami, Italian painter, active mainly in Bologna
*Zhou Shuxi, female Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty
probable
*Lazzaro Baldi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome
*Gaspard Marsy, French sculptor

Deaths

February 12 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith, jeweler, and philanthropist
February 21 – Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter
June 4 - Rombertus van Uylenburgh, Dutch lawyer, father-in-law of Rembrandt
September 23 – Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech, Dutch painter
November 2 - Cornelis van der Voort, Dutch portrait painter
date unknown
*Seyyid Kasim Gubari, Ottoman calligrapher who worked on the Sultan Ahmed Mosque
*Esther Inglis, Scottish miniaturist, embroiderer, calligrapher, translator and writer
*Luis Tristán, Spanish painter
*Abraham van Blijenberch, Flemish painter
*Jacob van der Laemen, Flemish painter
*Francesco Villamena, Italian engraver