Events from the year 1611 in art.
Events
Paintings
Births
- February 24 (bapt.) - William Dobson, English portrait painter (died 1646)
- March 15 - Jan Fyt, Flemish animal painter and etcher (died 1661)
- April 17 - Simone Pignoni, Italian painter of both then later pious works (died 1698)
- August 4 - Jan van den Hoecke, Antwerp painter and draftsman (died 1651)
- date unknown
- Nicolas Baudesson, French flower painter (died 1680)
- Giovanni Battista Bolognini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1668)
- Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, painter (died 1665)
- Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist (died 1650)
- Giovanni Francesco Cassana, Italian portrait painter (died 1691)
- Baldassare Franceschini, late Italian Baroque painter of frescoes (died 1689)
- Muyan, Chinese Chan monk and calligrapher (died 1684)
- Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting (died 1681)
- Francesco Guarino, Italian painter active mainly in the mountainous area east of Naples called Irpinia (died 1651/1654)
- Francesco Quaini, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1680)
- probable
- Antonio de Pereda, Spanish painter (died 1678)
- Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian who painted with unresolved dynamism and from awkward perspectives (died 1678)
- Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter (died 1693)
- Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Italian painter (died 1662)
- (born 1611/1612) - Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet â Dutch painter (died 1675)
Deaths
- January - Anton Möller, German painter (born 1563)
- August - Bartholomeus Spranger, Flemish Northern Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher (born 1546)
- date unknown
- Luigi Benfatto, Italian painter, nephew of Paolo Veronese (born 1551)
- Sun Kehong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet (born 1533)
- Camillo Mariani, Italian sculptor of the early Baroque (born 1565)
- Barthélemy Prieur, French sculptor (born 1536)
- Sampson Strong, Dutch-born portrait painter (born 1550)
- Nicolas van Houy, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1550)
- Marco Vecellio, Italian painter, nephew of Titian (born 1545)
- probable
- Ludovico Buti, Italian painter active mostly in Florence (born 1560)
- Jan Soens, Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch (born 1547)
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