1651 in art

Events

• Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" completed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Paintings

• David Bailly – Self-portrait with Vanitas symbols
• Guercino - The Libyan Sibyl
• Jacob Jordaens – The Triumph of Frederik Hendrik
• Nicolas Poussin
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• * The Holy Family
• Salvator Rosa – Democritus amid the Tombs
• David Teniers the Younger – Erzherzog Leopold Wilhelm in seiner Galerie in Brüssel
• Diego Velázquez – The ''Rokeby Venus''

Births

• August 13 - Balthasar Permoser, Austrian sculptor
• date unknown
• *Niccolò Bambini, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods
• *Teresa Maria Languasco, Italian painter and monk
• *Willem van Ingen, Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy
• *François-Alexandre Verdier, French painter, draftsman and engraver

Deaths

• January - Jacob Franquart, Flemish painter, court architect and copper plate engraver
• January 27 - Abraham Bloemaert, painter
• May 9 - Cornelis de Vos, Flemish painter
• August 16 - Henricus Hondius II, Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher
• August 27 – Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Dutch painter
• September 12 - Felix Castello, Spanish painter
• November 22 - Giovanni Battista Soria, Italian architect
• December 6 - Anna Visscher, Dutch artist, poet, and translator
• date unknown
• *Friedrich Brentel, German printmaker in engraving and etching, and miniature painter
• *Giovanni Domenico Cappellino Italian painter, active mainly in his native Genoa
• *Dirck Cornelis de Hooch, Dutch portrait painter
• *Panfilo Nuvolone, Italian Mannerist painter
• *Kanō Sansetsu, Japanese painter
• *John Taylor, portrait painter
• *Jan van den Hoecke, Antwerp painter and draftsman
• *Floris van Dyck, Dutch still life painter
• *Joris van Schooten, Dutch Golden Age painter
• probable - Francesco Guarino, Italian painter active mainly in Irpinia