1628 in art

Events

• February – Gerrit Dou becomes a pupil of Rembrandt; the latter, then 22 years of age, paints a cheerful self-portrait, which will be sold 380 years later, in 2008, for 4.5 million dollars.
• August 10 – Maiden voyage of Swedish royal warship Vasa which is richly decorated with wood sculptures by Mårten Redtmer and others.
• Willem van Haecht becomes curator of the art collection owned by Cornelis van der Geest.
• Gerard van Honthorst visits the court of King Charles I of England.

Works

• Nicolas Poussin – The Death of Germanicus
• Francisco de Zurbarán – Saint Serapion
• Cornelis van Haarlem – The Judgement of Paris
• Anthony van Dyck
• *Nicolas Lanier
• *The Shepherd Paris
• Diego Velázquez – ''Portrait of the Infanta Maria of Austria''

Births

• January 6 - Balthazard Marsy, French sculptor
• March 17 – François Girardon, French sculptor
• April 22 – Georg Matthäus Vischer, cartographer, topographer and engraver
• May 15 – Carlo Cignani, Italian painter of the Bolognese school
• August – Pedro de Mena, Spanish sculptor
• December 25 – Noël Coypel, French painter
• date unknown
• *Jan Pieter Brueghel, Flemish Baroque painter
• *Guillaume Courtois, French painter and etcher
• *Biagio Falcieri, Italian painter of the Baroque era
• *Prosper Henricus Lankrink, Flemish painter
• *Heinrich Meyring, German sculptor
• *Andrea Suppa, Italian painter of marine landscapes
• *Giovanni Battista Venanzi, Italian painter of churches in the Baroque period
• probable
• *Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael, Dutch landscape painter
• *1628/1629: Herman van Aldewereld, Dutch portrait painter

Deaths

• January 14 – Francisco Ribalta, Spanish painter, mostly of religious subjects
• October – Juan Ribalta, Spanish painter, son of Francisco Ribalta
• October 14 - Palma il Giovane, Italian Mannerist painter from Venice
• date unknown
• *Hans Collaert, Flemish engraver and draughtsman
• *Baldassare Croce, Italian academic painter and director of the Accademia di San Luca
• *Bartolomé de Cárdenas, Spanish painter
• *Giacomo Locatelli, Italian painter born at Verona
• *Jan Harmensz. Muller, Dutch painter
• *Ding Yunpeng, Chinese painter especially of human figures and landscapes
• *1628/1629: Johannes Bosschaert, member of the Bosschaert family of still life painters
• *1628/1629: Simon Frisius, Dutch engraver
• *1628/1632: Rafael Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family