1670 in art

Events from the year 1670 in art.

Events

• An inventory of the art collection of Principe Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna lists works by Pietro Paolo Bonzi and many others.
• Gerard Reynst publishes Signorum Veterum Icones, a series of prints by Gerard de Lairesse based on the Italian statuary in Reynst's Amsterdam collection.

Paintings

• Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – ' (approximate date)
• Jan de Bray – '
• Isaac Fuller – Self-portrait (approximate date)
• Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts – ' (approximate date)
• Jacob Ochtervelt – ' (approximate date)
• Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael – The windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede (approximate date)
• Jan Vermeer – The Lacemaker

Births

• January 26 – Jacob van Schuppen, Austrian painter (died 1751)
• April 23 – Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, English historian, travel writer and artist (died 1735)
• August 24 – Louis Galloche, French painter (died 1761)
• date unknown
• Louis Audran, French engraver (died 1712)
• François Boitard, French painter (died 1715)
• Grigory Musikiysky, Russian painter (died 1740)
• Arcangelo Resani, Italian painter of animals and hunted game (died 1740)
• John Verelst, English portrait painter (died 1734)

Deaths

• January 18 – Andrea Vaccaro, Italian Caravaggisti painter of a tenebrist style (born 1600)
• May 21 – Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Bolognese painter (born 1610)
• June – Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh, Dutch painter of the baroque era (born 1610)
• June 15 – Louis Lerambert, French sculptor from family of artists (born 1620)
• November 3 (buried) – Salomon van Ruysdael, Dutch Golden Age landscape painter (born 1602)
• November 5 - Viviano Codazzi, Italian architectural painter (born 1604)
• November 26 – Jacob van Loo, Dutch painter, founder of the Van Loo family of painters (born 1614)
• December – Bartholomeus van der Helst, Dutch portrait painter (born 1613)
• December 24 – Jan Mytens, Dutch painter (born 1614)
• date unknown
• Angelica Veronica Airola, Italian painter (born 1590)
• Isaac Briot, French engraver and draughtsman (born 1585)
• Cheng Zhengkui, Chinese landscape painter and poet (born 1604)
• Giovanna Garzoni, Italian woman painter of still-lifes of fruits, vegetables, and flowers (born 1600)
• Jean Michelin, French Protestant painter (born about 1616)
• Juan de Pareja, Spanish painter from Seville (born 1610)
• probable
• Luca Forte, Italian painter of still-lifes in Naples (born 1615)
• Michele Pace del Campidoglio, Italian painter of fruit and flowers (born 1610)

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