1618 in art

Events from the year 1618 in art.

Works

• Anthony van Dyck
• Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak
• Jacob Jordaens
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• Meleager and Atalanta
• Peter Paul Rubens
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• The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
• The Union of Earth and Water (approximate year)
• Diego Velázquez
• Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
• The Farmers' Lunch
• Old Woman Cooking Eggs
• Three Musicians
• The Waterseller of Seville (original version)

Births

• January 1 (baptized) – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (died 1682)
• June 28 – Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver (died 1682)
• September 11 – Francesco Grue, Italian potter and painter (died 1673)
• September 14 – Peter Lely, Dutch portrait painter (died 1680)
• date unknown
• Carlo Cane, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1688)
• Gioseffo Danedi, Italian painter (died 1689)
• Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, Italian painter and etcher (died 1677)
• Cornelis Holsteyn, Dutch painter of historical allegories, portraits, and interior decorations (died 1658)
• Hishikawa Moronobu, Japanese painter (died 1694)
• Gong Xian, Chinese painter (died 1689)
• Giovanni Pietro Possenti, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1659)
• Pieter Hermansz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age genre art painter (died 1678)
• probable
• (born 1608/1618) Ginevra Cantofoli, Italian painter (died 1672)
• (born 1618/1621) – Jacopo Chiavistelli, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1698)

Deaths

• February 21 – Vittorio Baldini, Italian engraver
• April 8 – Antonio Marziale Carracci, Italian painter (born 1583)
• May 24 – Cornelis IJsbrantsz Cussens, Dutch draughtsman and glass painter (born 1580)
• June 29 – Adriaen Collaert, Flemish engraver (born 1560)
• date unknown
• Luis de Carvajal, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (born 1531)
• Ambrosius Francken I, Flemish painter (born 1544)
• Giovanni Guerra, Italian draughtsman and painter (born 1544)
• Paolo Camillo Landriani, Italian painter (born c. 1560)
• Pietro Malombra, Italian painter (born 1556)
• Giulio Mazzoni, Italian painter and stuccoist (born 1525)
• Fillide Melandroni, Italian courtesan, model for Caravaggio (born 1581)
• Camillo Rizzi (or Ricci), Italian painter (born 1580)
• Ercole Setti, Italian engraver (born 1530)
• Unkoku Togan, Japanese painter (born 1547)
• Maffeo Verona, Italian painter (born 1576)

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