1650 in art

Events

• Giovanni Angelo Canini is received into the Accademia di San Luca of Rome
• Pieter van Bredael enters the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp.
• Govert Dircksz Camphuysen becomes a poorter and moves from Jordaan to Kalverstraat

Paintings

• Bartolomeo Biscaino, Adoration of the Magi
• Claude Lorrain
• *Coast Scene with the landing of Aeneas
• *View of La Crescenza
• Gerard Dou – The Dutch Housewife
• Aniello Falcone – The Anchorite
• David Ryckaert – Temptation of St. Anthony
• Aernout van der Neer – Moonlit Landscape with Bridge
• Gerard van Honthorst – Portrait of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
• Diego Velázquez – approximate completion date
• *Portrait of Innocent X
• *Portrait of Juan de Pareja
• Helmich van Thweenhuysen II - ''Portrait of a Clergyman''

Births

• January 11 - Diana Glauber, Dutch-German painter
• April 16 - Jean Joly, French sculptor
• April 20 - Felice Boselli, Italian painter, active mainly in Piacenza
• October - Jan Mortel, Dutch painter
• date unknown
• *Rinaldo Botti, Italian painter born in Florence
• *Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles, French engraver, painter, and collector
• *Margherita Caffi, Italian woman painter of Still lifes of flowers and fruit
• *Bernardino Ciceri, Italian painter
• *Jean Cornu, French sculptor
• *Francisco de Artiga, Spanish landscape and historical painter
• *Alessandro Mari, Italian painter of capricci and symbolical representations
• *Carlo Moscatiello, Italian painter of quadratura
• *Giovanni Francesco Venturini, Italian painter and engraver
• *Huang Ding, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty
• probable
• *Valerio Baldassari, Italian painter
• *Domenico Maria Bonavera, Italian engraver
• *Giovanni Canti, Italian] painter of the Baroque
• *Jan Kryštof Liška, Czech Baroque painter
• *Garret Morphey, Irish painter of portraits, genre works and landscapes
• *John Slezer, Dutch- or German-born military engineer and artist
• *Jan van der Vaardt, Dutch painter of portraits, landscapes and trompe-l'œil

Deaths

• January 17 – Tommaso Dolabella, Venetian painter
• January 18 – Matteo Rosselli, Italian painter
• June 19 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver
• July 20 – Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter
• December – Jacob Pynas, Dutch Golden Age painter
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Battista Barbiani, Italian painter of the Baroque period
• *Giovanni Battista Barca, Italian painter
• *Giovanni Campino, Italian painter from Camerino
• *Martin Droeshout, English engraver
• *Nicodemo Ferrucci, Italian painter
• *Guy François, French painter
• *Baltazar Kuncz, Polish sculptor and woodcarver
• *Jean Nicolle, French painter
• *Antonio Randa, Italian painter active in Ferrara
• *Bartholomeus Strobel, Silesian Baroque painter
• *Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist
• *Gerrit van Bloclant, Dutch Renaissance painter
• *Alessandro Vitali, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Baroque periods