1665 in art

Events

• April – Gian Lorenzo Bernini arrives in Paris, where he remains until November, fêted by the population.
• Claude Perrault begins work on the eastern wing of the Louvre.

Works

• Gabriël Metsu
• *Lady Reading a Letter
• *Man Writing a Letter
• Murillo – The Dolorosa Madonna
• Jacob Ochtervelt – Street Musicians at the Door
• Rembrandt – David and Uriah
• Jan Vermeer
• *A [Lady Writing a Letter]
• *''Woman with a Pearl Necklace''

Births

• March 14 - Giuseppe Crespi, Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School
• March 21 - José Benito de Churriguera, Spanish architect and sculptor
• May 7 - Maurelio Scanavini, Italian painter of the Baroque period, mainly active in Ferrara
• date unknown
• *Claude Duflos, French engraver
• *Jean-Louis Lemoyne, French sculptor
• *Francesco Penso, Venetian sculptor
• *Tommaso Redi Italian painter, active in his native Florence
• *Norbert Roettiers, Flemish engraver
• *Giovanni Enrico Vaymer, Italian portrait painter

Deaths

• January 16 - Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, painter
• May - Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, painter
• July 3 - Francesco Costanzo Cattaneo, Italian painter
• July 14 - Aniello Falcone, Italian Baroque painter noted for his painted depictions of battle scenes
• July 27 - Francesco Cairo, Italian painter active in Lombardy and Piedmont
• August 25 - Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter
• November 19 – Nicolas Poussin, painter
• December 19 - Gerard van Zyl, Dutch Golden Age painter of portraits and genre scenes
• date unknown
• *Antonio Bacci, Italian still life painter
• *Albert Eckhout – Dutch portrait and still life painter
• *Jan Sadeler II, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family
• *Thomas Simon, English medalist
• *Friedrich van Hulsen, Dutch printmaker and engraver