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Events

  • Following the death of Sir Peter Lely
    Peter Lely
    Sir Peter Lely was a painter of Dutch origin, whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court.-Life:...

    , Godfrey Kneller
    Godfrey Kneller
    Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to British monarchs from Charles II to George I...

     is appointed Principal Painter to the Crown by King Charles II of England
    Charles II of England
    Charles II was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.Charles II's father, King Charles I, was executed at Whitehall on 30 January 1649, at the climax of the English Civil War...

    .

Births

  • January 3 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann
    Johann Baptist Zimmermann
    Johann Baptist Zimmermann was a German painter and a prime stucco plasterer during the Baroque.Zimmermann was born in Gaispoint, Wessobrunn. He and his brother Dominikus Zimmermann were descended from an artist family of the Wessobrunner School...

    , German painter and stucco
    Stucco
    Stucco or render is a material made of an aggregate, a binder, and water. Stucco is applied wet and hardens to a very dense solid. It is used as decorative coating for walls and ceilings and as a sculptural and artistic material in architecture...

     plasterer (d. 1758
    1758 in art
    -Births:*April 4**John Hoppner, portrait painter **Pierre Paul Prud'hon, painter *June 19 – Raffaello Sanzio Morghen, engraver *August 14 – Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, painter...

    )
  • date unknown
    • Leonardo Coccorante
      Leonardo Coccorante
      Leonardo Coccorante was an Italian painter who was born in Naples, Italy. He studied with Jan Frans van Bloemen , Angelo Maria Costa , and finally with Gabriele Ricciardelli . From 1737 to 1739, he was employed decorating the royal palace of Naples...

      , Italian painter especially of large, highly detailed landscapes with imaginary classical architectural ruins (d. 1750
      1750 in art
      -Paintings:* Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin paints Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, notable for reflected light on glass/silver* Thomas Gainsborough paints Mr and Mrs Andrews* Maruyama Okyo paints The Ghost of Oyuki in ink on silk-Births:...

      )
    • Lorenzo De Ferrari, Italian painter (d. 1744
      1744 in art
      -Births:*February 13 – David Allan, Scottish painter *October 27 – Mary Moser, painter *October 28 – William Hodges, English landscape painter *December 10 – William Berczy, Canadian pioneer and painter *date unknown...

      )
    • Giuseppe Gambarini
      Giuseppe Gambarini
      Giuseppe Gambarini was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. He was a pupil of the painters Lorenzo Pasinelli and Cesare Gennari. He also painted frescoes in the Palazzo Buonaccorsi in Macerata. He is also called Gioseffo Gambarini. One of his pupils was...

      , Italian painter of fresco
      Fresco
      Fresco is any of several related mural painting types, executed on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Greek word affresca which derives from the Latin word for "fresh". Frescoes first developed in the ancient world and continued to be popular through the Renaissance...

      es (d. 1725
      1725 in art
      -Births:*August 21 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter *September 25 – Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian engraver *November 22 – Ignaz Günther, German sculptor and woodcarver within the Bavarian rococo tradition *date unknown...

      )
    • Carlo Antonio Rambaldi
      Carlo Antonio Rambaldi
      Carlo Antonio Rambaldi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in his native Bologna. He was a pupil of Domenico Vianni....

      , Italian painter of the Baroque
      Baroque
      The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

       period (d. 1717
      1717 in art
      -Births:*February 17 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor *June 20 – Jacques Saly, French sculptor *August 11 – Giovanni Carlo Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect, designer, and painter *date unknown...

      )
    • Girolamo Rossi
      Girolamo Rossi
      Girolamo Rossi was an Italian engraver of the late-Baroque. He was also called Girolamo de Rubeis the Younger. He was born and lived most of his life in Rome, where he engraved a variety of plates after the Italian painters...

      , Italian engraver of the late-Baroque
      Baroque
      The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

       (d. unknown)
    • Carlo Salis
      Carlo Salis
      Carlo Salis was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Verona. He was initially a pupil of the painter Alessandro Marchesini, then went to work under Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole and later with Antonio Balestra in Venice.-References:...

      , Italian painter, born in Verona
      Verona
      Verona ; German Bern, Dietrichsbern or Welschbern) is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy, with approx. 265,000 inhabitants and one of the seven chef-lieus of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third of North-Eastern Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona...

       (d. 1763
      1763 in art
      -Events:* Canaletto is elected to the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts.* Francesco Zuccarelli is elected to the Venetian Academy.-Births:* June 26 – George Morland, English painter of animals and rustic scenes...

      )
    • Pier Lorenzo Spoleti
      Pier Lorenzo Spoleti
      Pier Lorenzo Spoleti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in his natal city of Genoa.Born and died in Finale Ligure in Italy. Spoleti's parents died when he was young and he went to live with an aunt, who seeing his inclination to paintings sent him to apprentice with...

      , Italian painter of portrait painting and reproductions of master paintings (d. 1726
      1726 in art
      -Paintings:* Johann Heinrich Tischbein painted Portrait of the Artist's first Wife, Marie Sophie Robert.-Births:* October 16 – Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter * Katsukawa Shunshō – Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style...

      )
    • Candido Vitali
      Candido Vitali
      Candido Vitali was an Italian painter of the late Baroque period. He was born in Bologna. He trained under Cignani and devoted himself to painting still lifes of animals, birds, flower, and fruit.-References:...

      , Italian painter of still lifes of animals, birds, flower, and fruit (d. 1753
      1753 in art
      -Paintings:* Jean-Baptiste Oudry painted The White Duck.* Gustaf Lundberg painted a portrait of Carolus Linnaeus .* Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid....

      )
  • probable
    • Francesco Boccaccino
      Francesco Boccaccino
      Francesco Boccaccino was an Italian painter of the Baroque. He was born at Cremona. He studied at Rome, first under Giacinto Brandi, and afterwards worked in the studio of Carlo Maratta. The Cremonese Antonio Beltrami was one of Boccaccino's pupils.-References:...

      , Italian painter of the Baroque
      Baroque
      The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

      , born at Cremona
      Cremona
      Cremona is a city and comune in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments...

       (d. 1750
      1750 in art
      -Paintings:* Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin paints Still Life with Glass Flask and Fruit, notable for reflected light on glass/silver* Thomas Gainsborough paints Mr and Mrs Andrews* Maruyama Okyo paints The Ghost of Oyuki in ink on silk-Births:...

      )
    • Domenico Bocciardo
      Domenico Bocciardo
      Domenico Bocciardo was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Genoa.Native of Finale Ligure, but died in Genoa. He was a pupil of Giovanni Maria Morandi in Rome, but upon the death of Morandi in 1717, went to Genoa to work. He painted a San Giovanni baptizing the Multitude for the...

      , Italian painter of the Baroque
      Baroque
      The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

       period, active in Genoa
      Genoa
      Genoa |Ligurian]] Zena ; Latin and, archaically, English Genua) is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria....

       (d. 1746
      1746 in art
      -Paintings:*Canaletto paints Westminster Bridge.*John Smybert paints portrait of William Pepperrell-Births:*March 22 – Gerard van Spaendonck, Dutch painter *March 30 – Francisco Goya, Aragonese Spanish painter and printmaker...

      )
    • Charles Collins
      Charles Collins (painter)
      Charles Collins was an Irish painter.Born in Dublin, Collins was primarily a painter of animals and still life. He was one of the first still life artists in Britain of great quality, following the tradition of arranged breakfasts, still lifes or cabinets of curiosities, where items of high value...

      , Irish painter primarily of animals and still-life (d. 1744
      1744 in art
      -Births:*February 13 – David Allan, Scottish painter *October 27 – Mary Moser, painter *October 28 – William Hodges, English landscape painter *December 10 – William Berczy, Canadian pioneer and painter *date unknown...

      )
    • Sebastiano Conca
      Sebastiano Conca
      Sebastiano Conca was an Italian painter.He was born at Gaeta, then part of the Kingdom of Naples, and apprenticed in Naples under Francesco Solimena. In 1706, along with his brother Giovanni, who acted as his assistant, he settled at Rome, where for several years he worked in chalk only, to...

      , Italian painter (d. 1764
      1764 in art
      -Births:*April 14 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder *April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann, printer and lithographer *May 11 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter *May 20 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor...

      )
    • Gaetano Martoriello
      Gaetano Martoriello
      Gaetano Martoriello was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active near his natal city of Naples. He painted mainly marine vedute and landscapes.-References:...

      , Italian painter of marine vedute and landscapes (d. 1733
      1733 in art
      -Births:*January 8 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome *January 18 – Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, Swiss watercolour painter *March 13 – Johann Zoffany, German neoclassical painter *March 23 – Josiah Spode, potter -Births:*January 8 – Anton von Maron, Austrian painter active in Rome (died...

      )

Deaths

  • February – Willem Drost
    Willem Drost
    Willem Drost was a Dutch Golden Age painter and printmaker of history paintings and portraits who died young.-Biography:...

    , Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     painter (b. 1630
    1630 in art
    -Paintings:* Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Merchants * Rembrandt - The Rising of Lazarus, using chiaroscuro* Diego Velázquez – La Fragua de Vulcano-Births:...

    )
  • August 24 – Ferdinand Bol
    Ferdinand Bol
    Ferdinand Bol was a Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman. Although his surviving work is rare, it displays Rembrandt's influence; like his master, Bol favored historical subjects, portraits, numerous self-portraits, and single figures in exotic finery.The street Ferdinand Bolstraat in Amsterdam was...

    , Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman
    Drawing
    Drawing is a form of visual art that makes use of any number of drawing instruments to mark a two-dimensional medium. Common instruments include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals .An artist who...

     (b. 1616
    1616 in art
    -Paintings:* Jacob Jordaens painted Adoration of the Shepherds, his earliest dated extant work.* Isaac Oliver painted a miniature of Donne.* Simon van de Passe made an engraved portrait of Pocahontas , later published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia in 1624.* Peter Paul Rubens painted...

    )
  • October 4 – Jacobus Mancadan
    Jacobus Mancadan
    Jacobus Sibrandi Mancadan was a Dutch Golden Age painter mostly known for his pastoral landscapes.-Biography:He is considered one of the most important Frisian landscape painters of the Dutch Golden Age...

    , Dutch Golden Age painter mostly known for his pastoral landscapes (b. 1602
    1602 in art
    -Paintings:*Pieter Brueghel the Younger - The Procession to Calvary*Caravaggio**The Inspiration of Saint Matthew**The Taking of Christ**Amor Vincit Omnia**Saint Matthew and the Angel**John the Baptist ...

    )
  • November 28
    • Gian Lorenzo Bernini
      Gian Lorenzo Bernini
      Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian artist who worked principally in Rome. He was the leading sculptor of his age and also a prominent architect...

      , Italian sculptor/architect/painter (b. 1598
      1598 in art
      -Events:*Marin le Bourgeoys is appointed Valet de Chambre to King Henry IV of France. At court he produces artwork, firearms, air guns, crossbows, and movable globes....

      )
    • Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
      Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi
      Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi was an Italian architect and painter, named Il Bolognese from the place of his birth. Grimaldi was a relative of the Carracci family, under whom it is presumed he first apprenticed....

      , Italian
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

       architect
      Architect
      An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

       and painter (b. 1606
      1606 in art
      -Births:*February 27 – Laurent de La Hire, French painter *July 15 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter * Anthonie Jansz. van der Croos – Dutch painter * Jan Davidsz de Heem – Dutch painter...

      )
  • November 30 – Sir Peter Lely
    Peter Lely
    Sir Peter Lely was a painter of Dutch origin, whose career was nearly all spent in England, where he became the dominant portrait painter to the court.-Life:...

    , English painter (b. 1618
    1618 in art
    -Births:*January 1 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter *June 28 - Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver *September 14 – Peter Lely, Dutch portrait painter *date unknown...

    )
  • date unknown
    • Girolamo Bonini
      Girolamo Bonini
      Girolamo Bonini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna. Also known as L'Aconitano due to his natal city of Ancona. He was the pupil of the painter Francesco Albani. He painted a Christ adored by angels, St. Sebastian, and St. Bonaventure owned by the Louvre museum...

      , Italian
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

       painter of the Baroque
      Baroque
      The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

       period, active mainly in Bologna
      Bologna
      Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

       (b. unknown)
    • Hendrick Danckerts
      Hendrick Danckerts
      Hendrick Danckerts was a Dutch Golden Age landscape painter and engraver.-Biography:Danckerts was born in The Hague, where he learned his trade and remained until 1653. He visited England for the first time in 1650. In 1653 he went to Italy, where he stayed for five years. He then moved to England...

      , Dutch
      Netherlands
      The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

       painter and engraver (b. 1625
      1625 in art
      -Works:*Pieter Lastman – The Angel and Tobias with the Fish*Rembrandt – The Stoning of Saint Stephen-Births:*May 13 – Carlo Maratta, Italian painter *November 20 – Paulus Potter, Dutch painter specializing in animals in landscapes...

      )
    • Angelo Everardi
      Angelo Everardi
      Angelo Everardi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Born in Brescia. He studied under the Flemish John de Hertz and Francesco Monti . Known as il Fiamminghino or Fiammenghino. He worked mainly as a Battle painter...

      , Italian
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

       painter of battle scenes (b. 1647
      1647 in art
      -Paintings: * Aernout van der Neer – Landscape with Windmill, painted 1647-49-Births:*November - Jan van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter *date unknown - Angelo Everardi, Italian painter of battle scenes *probable...

      )
    • Giovanni Fulco
      Giovanni Fulco
      Giovanni Fulco was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Messina. After having learned the first principles of design there, he went to Naples, where he entered the school of Cavalière Massimo Stanzione. He excelled particularly in the representation of children. Many of his...

      , Italian
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

       painter excelling particularly in the representation of children (b. 1615
      1615 in art
      -Births:*January 25 - Govert Flinck, painter of the Dutch Golden Age *June 20 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter, poet and printmaker *date unknown**Georg Daniel Schultz, Dutch painter...

      )
    • Egbert van Heemskerk I, Dutch painter (b. 1610
      1610 in art
      -Works:*Caravaggio**The Denial of Saint Peter**John the Baptist **The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula**David with the Head of Goliath-Births:...

    • Adriano Palladino
      Adriano Palladino
      Adriano Palladino was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born and active in Cortona, although he was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona in Rome.-References:...

      , Italian
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

       painter born and active in Cortona
      Cortona
      Cortona is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, in Tuscany, Italy. It is the main cultural and artistic center of the Val di Chiana after Arezzo.-History:...

       (b. 1610
      1610 in art
      -Works:*Caravaggio**The Denial of Saint Peter**John the Baptist **The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula**David with the Head of Goliath-Births:...

      )
    • Francesco Quaini
      Francesco Quaini
      Francesco Quaini was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Born in Bologna, he started as a pupil of the renowned quadratura master, Agostino Mitelli. Working together with Marcantonio Franceschini, In Bologna, Francesco painted in several public buildings, including the decoration of the Sala...

       – Italian
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

       painter of quadratura (b. 1611
      1611 in art
      -Paintings:*Frans Hals - Jacobus Zaffius -Births:*February 24 - William Dobson, English portrait painter *March 15 - Jan Fyt, Flemish animal painter and etcher...

      )
    • Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia
      Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia
      Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia was an Italian painter and artist biographer of the Baroque period. He was a pupil, along with Giovanni Domenico Cerrini of the painter Guido Reni....

       – Italian
      Italy
      Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

       painter and artist biographer of the Baroque
      Baroque
      The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

       period (b. 1616
      1616 in art
      -Paintings:* Jacob Jordaens painted Adoration of the Shepherds, his earliest dated extant work.* Isaac Oliver painted a miniature of Donne.* Simon van de Passe made an engraved portrait of Pocahontas , later published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia in 1624.* Peter Paul Rubens painted...

      )
    • Wang Shimin
      Wang Shimin
      Wáng Shímǐn ; ca. 1592-1680 was a Chinese landscape painter during the Qing Dynasty .Born in the Kiangsu province, Wang grew up in an artistic, scholarly environment...

       – Chinese
      China
      Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

       landscape painter during the Ch'ing Dynasty (b. 1592
      1592 in art
      -Works:*Giuseppe Cesari – Cappella Olgiati in Santa Prassede*Tintoretto begins work on the Last Supper fresco *Caravaggio paints Boy Peeling Fruit-Births:...

      )
  • probableWillem Claeszoon Heda
    Willem Claeszoon Heda
    Willem Claeszoon Heda was one of the earliest Dutch Golden Age artists devoted exclusively to the painting of still lifes.-Biography:Heda was born in Haarlem,...

    , Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     still life
    Still life
    A still life is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural or man-made...

     painter (b. 1594
    1594 in art
    -Paintings:*Tintoretto – The Last Supper*Caravaggio**The Cardsharps**The Fortune Teller -Births:*June 15 - Nicolas Poussin, French painter in the classical style...

    )
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