1643 in art

Events

• Painter Peter Lely moves from Haarlem to London at about this date.

Works

• Sébastien Bourdon –
• Alonzo Cano – Ideal portrait of a Spanish King
• William Dobson – Portrait of an Old and a Younger Man
• Jan van Goyen – An Evening River Landscape with a Ferry
• Cornelius Johnson – Major-General Sir William Waller
• Rembrandt
• *The Artist's Wife, Saskia
• *Landscape with a Castle
• *Portrait of an Old Man
• *The Three Trees
• Diego Velázquez – ''Self-portrait''

Births

• 7 December – Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian engraver especially of contemporary and antique structures in Rome
• date unknown
• *Juan de Alfaro y Gamez, Spanish painter of the Baroque
• *Giovanni Battista Buonocore, Italian painter
• *Filippo Gherardi – Italian painter of frescoes
• *Ludovico Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period
• *Luigi Quaini, Italian painter of landscapes and architecture
• *Pandolfo Reschi, Polish-born Italian painter of battle scenes and landscapes
• *Orazio Marinali, Italian late-baroque sculptor, active mainly in Veneto
• *Gottfried Schalken, Dutch painter

Deaths

• April – Abraham Bosschaert, Dutch painter
• December 30 – Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art
• date unknown
• *Jean Chalette, French miniature and portrait painter
• *Belisario Corenzio, Italian Mannerist painter
• *Guillaume Dupré, French sculptor and medallist
• *Cornelis Jacobsz Delff, Dutch painter
• probable
• *Cheng Jiasui, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Ming Dynasty
• *Ottavio Vannini, Italian painter of altarpieces and churches, active mainly in Florence