1660 in art
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Events from the year 1660 in art.
Events
- November – The Dutch Gift: a collection including 28 mostly Italian Renaissance paintings and a dozen classical sculptures is presented to the newly restored King Charles II of England by the States-General of the Netherlands.[1]
- To circumvent restrictions placed by the Amsterdam painters' guild on bankrupts trading as painters, Rembrandt's son Titus van Rijn and mistress Hendrickje Stoffels set up a business as art dealers, nominally employing Rembrandt.
Paintings
- Aelbert Cuyp – approximate date
- The Maas at Dordrecht
- River Landscape with Horseman and Peasants
- Allaert van Everdingen – Nordic Landscape with a Castle on a Hill (approximate date)
- Rembrandt
- Jan Steen – An interior with the artist eating oysters and Skittle Players outside an Inn
- Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten – A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House (approximate date)
- Velázquez – Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress (completed (or perhaps painted) after the death of Velázquez by his pupil Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo)
- Jan Vermeer
Births
Skittle Players outside an Inn by Jan Steen.
- January 27 - Felice Cignani, Italian painter from Bologna (died 1724), son of Carlo Cignani
- March - Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer, German sculptor and stuccoist (died 1718)
- March 28 - Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht (died 1719)
- April 24 - Cornelis Dusart, Dutch genre painter, draftsman, and printmaker (died 1704)
- By May - Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter (died 1685)
- June 17 - Jan van Mieris, Dutch painter (died 1690)
- date unknown
- Antonio Amorosi, Italian painter, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome (died 1738)
- Francesco Bruni, Italian engraver (died unknown)
- John Closterman, portrait painter (died 1711)
- John Faber Senior, Dutch portrait engraver active in London (died 1721)
- Cesare Fantetti, Italian designer and etcher (died unknown)
- Christopher Elias Heiss, German painter and printmaker (died 1731)
- Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, art historian (died 1727)
- Gao Qipei, Chinese painter of landscapes and figures (died 1734)
- Tobias Querfurt, German painter, draughtsman, and engraver (died 1734)
- Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Florentine painter (died 1731)
- Chen Shu, Chinese painter (died 1736)
- Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter, Polish painter and engraver (died 1711)
- probable
- Andrés Pérez, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1727)
- Johann Gustav Stockenberg, Swedish sculptor and stonemason (died 1710)
- Peter Strudel, Austrian sculptor and painter (died 1714)
- Jan Joost van Cossiau, Flemish landscape painter and engraver (died 1732)
- Adriaen van Salm, Dutch draftsman and painter (died 1720)
Deaths
- January 1 - Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter (born 1597)
- January 16 - Peter Wtewael, Dutch painter, son of Joachim Wtewael (born 1596)
- February 2 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age (born 1615)
- February 10 - Judith Leyster, Dutch painter of Haarlem (born 1609)
- March 5 - Felice Ficherelli, Italian painter active in Tuscany (born 1605)
- March 9 - Hieronymus Joachims, Austrian painter (born 1619)
- April 6 - Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian painter of small canvases of genre scenes (born 1602)
- July 2 - Francesco Maffei, Italian painter characterized by provincial stylistic quirks (born 1605)
- July 27 - Giovanni Battista Vanni, Italian painter of frescoes and engraver (born 1599)
- August 2 - Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter of quadratura (born 1609)
- August 6 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (born 1599)
- September 22 - Pieter de Ring, Dutch painter famous for his opulent, flashy still lifes (born 1615)
- October 4 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (born 1578)
- October 20 - Claude Deruet, French painter (born 1588)
- November 30 - Caterina Ginnasi, Italian painter of altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia (born 1590)
- date unknown
- Esteban March, Spanish painter (born 1590)
- Filippo d'Angeli, Italian painter of battle scenes with small figures (born 1600)
- Giacomo Cavedone, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (born 1577)
- Alexander Cooper, English Baroque miniature painter (born 1609)
- Giovanni Battista Discepoli, Italian painter who was crippled (born 1590)
- Bernardino Gagliardi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1609)
- Richard Tassel, French painter (born 1582)
- probable
- Giuseppe Caletti, Italian painter and engraver (born 1600)
- Antonio Rocca, Italian painter in Rome who became a monk (date of birth unknown)
- Juan Valdelmira de Leon, Spanish of primarily still-life paintings of fruit and flowers (born 1630)
- Jan Baptist Weenix, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1621)
References
- Whitaker, Lucy; Clayton, Martin (2007). The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection: Renaissance & Baroque. London: Royal Collection. pp. 31–2. ISBN 978-1-902163-291.
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