1667 in art

Events from the year 1667 in art.

Events

In 1667, the royally sanctioned French institution of art patronage, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, held its first semi-public art exhibit at the Salon Carré

Paintings

Ludolf Bakhuizen – The Return of the Warship Hollandia in the Landsdiep near Huisduinen on 3 November 1665
Abraham van Beijeren – Banquet Still Life
Ferdinand Bol – Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter
Rembrandt
*The Jewish Bride
*Portrait of an elderly man
Johannes Vermeer -''Mistress and Maid''

Births

January 12 - Jonathan Richardson, English portrait painter, writer on art and collector
February 4 - Alessandro Magnasco, Italian Rococo painter of genre or landscape scenes
May 2 - Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German painter and engraver who invented the system of three- and four-colour printing
July 21 - Cristoforo Munari, Italian painter of the late-Baroque specializing in still life paintings
September 9 - Felice Torelli, Italian painter of altarpieces
November 5 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter
December 17 - Jan-Baptist Bosschaert, Flemish painter
date unknown
*Federiko Benković, Croatian late baroque painter
*Francis Bird, English sculptor
*Michael Feuchtmayer, German member of the Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists
*Jan Kupecký, Czech and Slovak portrait painter
*Antoine Rivalz, official painter to the town of Toulouse
*Giovanni Tuccari, Italian painter of battle scenes
*Cornelis Verelst, Dutch flower painter
*Ned Ward, English writer and publican

Deaths

January - Jacob Duck, Dutch painter
February 10 - Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter
June - Thomas de Keyser, Dutch painter and architect
May 22 - Pope Alexander VII, Papal patron of the arts commissioned architectural and sculptural works by Gianlorenzo Bernini
July 4 - Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch Golden Age painter
August 3 – Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, Swiss-Italian Baroque architect in Rome
August 12 - Cornelius van Poelenburgh, Dutch painter
September 3 - Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter, architect and sculptor
October 24 - Gabriël Metsu, Dutch painter
December 4 - Michel Lasne, French engraver, draughtsman and collector
date unknown
*Mario Balassi, Italian painter of the Baroque period
*Orfeo Boselli, Italian sculptor working in Rome
*Francisco Caro, Spanish Baroque painter
*Ignatius Croon, Flemish Baroque painter
*Frans Francken III, Flemish painter
*Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, Spanish painter active in Valencia
*Luigi Primo, Flemish painter of portraits and altarpieces