1660 in art

Events from the year 1660 in art.

Events

November – The Dutch Gift: a collection including 28 mostly Italian Renaissance paintings and a dozen classical sculptures is presented to the newly restored King Charles II of England by the States-General of the Netherlands.
To circumvent restrictions placed by the Amsterdam painters' guild on bankrupts trading as painters, Rembrandt's son Titus van Rijn and mistress Hendrickje Stoffels set up a business as art dealers, nominally employing Rembrandt.

Paintings

Aelbert Cuyp – approximate date
*The Maas at Dordrecht
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Allaert van Everdingen – Nordic Landscape with a Castle on a Hill
Rembrandt
*Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther
*David and Saul
*Self Portrait
*Titus the Artist's Son
Jan Steen – An interior with the artist eating oysters and Skittle Players outside an Inn
Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten – '
Velázquez – Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress
Jan Vermeer
*Girl Interrupted at Her Music
*The Girl with the Wine Glass
* The Glass of Wine
*''View of Delft''

Births

January 27 - Felice Cignani, Italian painter from Bologna, son of Carlo Cignani
March - Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer, German sculptor and stuccoist
March 28 - Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht
April 24 - Cornelis Dusart, Dutch genre painter, draftsman, and printmaker
By May - Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter
June 17 - Jan van Mieris, Dutch painter
date unknown
*Antonio Amorosi, Italian painter, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome
*Francesco Bruni, Italian engraver
*John Closterman, portrait painter
*John Faber the Elder, Dutch portrait engraver active in London
*Cesare Fantetti, Italian designer and etcher
*Christopher Elias Heiss, German painter and printmaker
*Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, art historian
*Gao Qipei, Chinese painter of landscapes and figures
*Tobias Querfurt, German painter, draughtsman, and engraver
*Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Florentine painter
*Chen Shu, Chinese painter
*Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter, Polish painter and engraver
probable
*Andrés Pérez, Spanish Baroque painter
*Johann Gustav Stockenberg, Swedish sculptor and stonemason
*Peter Strudel, Austrian sculptor and painter
*Jan Joost van Cossiau, Flemish landscape painter and engraver
*Adriaen van Salm, Dutch draftsman and painter

Deaths

January 1 - Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter
January 16 - Peter Wtewael, Dutch painter, son of Joachim Wtewael
February 2 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age
February 10 - Judith Leyster, Dutch painter of Haarlem
March 5 - Felice Ficherelli, Italian painter active in Tuscany
March 9 - Hieronymus Joachims, Austrian painter
April 6 - Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian painter of small canvases of genre scenes
July 2 - Francesco Maffei, Italian painter characterized by provincial stylistic quirks
July 27 - Giovanni Battista Vanni, Italian painter of frescoes and engraver
August 2 - Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter of quadratura
August 6 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter
September 22 - Pieter de Ring, Dutch painter famous for his opulent, flashy still lifes
October 4 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter
October 20 - Claude Deruet, French painter
November 30 - Caterina Ginnasi, Italian painter of altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia alle Botteghe Oscure
date unknown
*Esteban March, Spanish painter
*Filippo d'Angeli, Italian painter of battle scenes with small figures
*Giacomo Cavedone, Italian painter of the Bolognese School
*Alexander Cooper, English Baroque miniature painter
*Giovanni Battista Discepoli, Italian painter who was crippled
*Bernardino Gagliardi, Italian painter of the Baroque period
*Richard Tassel, French painter
probable
*Giuseppe Caletti, Italian painter and engraver
*Antonio Rocca, Italian painter in Rome who became a monk
*Juan Valdelmira de Leon, Spanish of primarily still-life paintings of fruit and flowers
*Jan Baptist Weenix, Dutch Golden Age painter