1666 in art
Events from the year 1666 in art.
Events
- June 1–4 – Four Days' Battle, a naval battle of the Second Anglo-Dutch War at which Willem van de Velde the Elder is present and makes sketches.
- A stay of three to five years at the Palazzo Mancini in Rome, at the expense of the King of France, is added to the Prix de Rome award.
Works
- John Hayls – Portrait of Samuel Pepys
- Sir Peter Lely
- *Barbara Palmer, Duchess of Cleveland, as St. Catherine of Alexandria
- *Flagmen of Lowestoft, portraits of English admirals
- Vermeer – ''The Art of Painting''
Births
- April 12 – Pierre Le Gros the Younger, French sculptor, active almost exclusively in Baroque Rome
- April 17 – Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder, German painter and copper engraver
- August 12 – Antonio Balestra, Italian Rococo painter
- September 4 – Anna Maria Ehrenstrahl, Swedish Baroque painter of allegories, portraits and group portraits
- November 17 – Benedetto Luti, Italian painter of pastel portraits
- November 28 – Magnus Berg, Norwegian painter, woodcarver, sculptor and non-fiction writer
- date unknown
- *Ferdinando del Cairo, Italian painter
- *Giovanna Fratellini, Italian painter of small miniature portraits
- *Giovanni Felice Ramelli, Italian painter of portrait miniatures and abbot
Deaths
Image:Storck, Four Days Battle.jpg|thumb|The Four Days' Battle, 1-4 June 1666- February 24 – Nicholas Lanier, English composer, singer, lutenist, painter and art collector
- May 13 – Pier Francesco Mola, Italian painter of frescoes
- June 29 – Mateo Cerezo, Spanish painter
- August 26 – Frans Hals, Dutch painter
- October – Jan Albertsz Rotius, Dutch portrait painter
- December 8 – Dancker Danckerts, Dutch engraver and publisher
- December 9 – Guercino, Italian Baroque painter
- date unknown
- *Domenico Bruni, Italian painter, mainly active in Brescia
- *Giovanni Angelo Canini, Italian painter and engraver
- *Philip Fruytiers, Flemish painter
- *Sebastian Furck, German engraver
- 1666 or 1667 – Peter Snayers, Flemish battlefield painter