1650 in art

Births

• January 11 - Diana Glauber, Dutch-German painter (died 1721)
• April 16 - Jean Joly, French sculptor (died 1740)
• April 20 - Felice Boselli, Italian painter, active mainly in Piacenza (died 1732)
• October - Jan Mortel, Dutch painter (died 1719)
• date unknown
• Rinaldo Botti, Italian painter born in Florence (died unknown)
• Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles, French engraver, painter, and collector (died 1709)
• Margherita Caffi, Italian woman painter of Still lifes of flowers and fruit (died 1710)
• Bernardino Ciceri, Italian painter (died unknown)
• Jean Cornu, French sculptor (died 1710/1715)
• Francisco de Artiga, Spanish landscape and historical painter (died 1711)
• Alessandro Mari, Italian painter of capricci and symbolical representations (died 1707)
• Carlo Moscatiello, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1739)
• Giovanni Francesco Venturini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1710)
• Huang Ding, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (died 1730)
• probable
• Valerio Baldassari, Italian painter (died 1695)
• Domenico Maria Bonavera, Italian engraver (died unknown)
• Giovanni Canti, Italian] painter of the Baroque (died 1716)
• Jan KryÅ¡tof LiÅ¡ka, Czech Baroque painter (died 1712)
• Garret Morphey, Irish painter of portraits, genre works and landscapes (died 1716)
• John Slezer, Dutch- or German-born military engineer and artist (died 1717)
• Jan van der Vaardt, Dutch painter of portraits, landscapes and trompe-l'œil (died 1727)

Deaths

• January 17 – Tommaso Dolabella, Venetian painter (born 1570)
• January 18 – Matteo Rosselli, Italian painter (born 1578)
• June 19 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (born 1593)
• July 20 – Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter (born 1578)
• December – Jacob Pynas, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1583)
• date unknown
• Giovanni Battista Barbiani, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1593)
• Giovanni Battista Barca, Italian painter (born 1594)
• Giovanni Campino, Italian painter from Camerino (born 1590)
• Martin Droeshout, English engraver (born 1601)
• Nicodemo Ferrucci, Italian painter (born 1574)
• Guy François, French painter (born c.1578)
• Baltazar Kuncz, Polish sculptor and woodcarver (born 1580)
• Jean Nicolle, French painter (born 1610)
• Antonio Randa, Italian painter active in Ferrara (born unknown)
• Bartholomeus Strobel, Silesian Baroque painter (born 1591)
• Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist (born 1611)
• Gerrit van Bloclant, Dutch Renaissance painter (born 1578)
• Alessandro Vitali, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Baroque periods (born 1580)

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