1674 in art

Events

• The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture holds the first Salon in Paris.

Paintings

• Mary Beale – Portrait of Jan Baptist van Helmont
• Claude Lorrain – Seaport
• Gerard de Lairesse – Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple
• Antonio Verrio – ''The Sea Triumph of Charles II''

Births

• January 12 – Alexis Simon Belle, French portrait painter
• January 28 - Jean Ranc, French portrait painter
• June 28 – Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome
• date unknown
• *Diego Francesco Carlone, Italian sculptor
• *Giovanni Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period
• *Giuseppe Palmieri, Italian painter
• *Giovanni Battista Parodi, Italian fresco painter
• *Marc van Duvenede, Flemish painter
• *Giampietro Zanotti, Italian painter and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo period
• probable – Onofrio Avellino, Italian painter

Deaths

• February – Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter
• May - Balthazard Marsy, French sculptor
• June 4 – Jan Lievens, Dutch painter and visual artist
• July 30 – Karel Škréta, Czech Baroque painter
• August 12 – Philippe de Champaigne, French Baroque portrait painter
• September 29 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch Golden Age painter
• November 4 - Kanō Tanyū, Japanese painter
• date unknown
• *Charles Audran, French engraver
• *Pieter Boel, Flemish painter
• *Pedro de Camprobín, Spanish painter of animals, fruit, and flowers
• *Pieter de Jode II, engraver
• *Chöying Dorje, 10th Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and a painter and sculptor
• *Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher
• *Nicolas Jarry, French calligrapher
• *Vincenzo Manenti, Italian painter who worked on the cathedral at Tivoli
• *Tomás Yepes, Spanish painter of primarily bodegóns
• probable
• *Kun Can, Chinese painter from Hunan who spent most of his life in Nanjing
• *Bartolommeo Torregiani, Italian painter of landscapes and portraits
• *Pieter Xavery, Flemish sculptor