1656 in art

Events

Works

* "The Procuress" – Johannes Vermeer (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)
* "Las Meninas" - Diego Velázquez (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Births

* August 18 - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter and author (d. 1743)
* December 11 - Johann Michael Rottmayr, Austrian painter (d. 1730)
* Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena, Italian painter (d. 1749)
* Jacob de Heusch - Dutch painter (d. 1701)
* Willem Wissing - Dutch portrait artist (d. 1687)
* Simone Brentana - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Verona (d. 1742)
* Giovanni Antonio Burrini - Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style (d. 1727)
* Sebastiano Galeotti - peripatetic Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (d. 1746)
* Louis de Deyster - Flemish painter of churches and maker of musical instruments (d. 1711)
* Francesco Trevisani - Italian painter of frescoes, active in the period called either early Rococo or late Baroque (d. 1746)
* Nicolas de Largillière - French painter (d. 1746)
* Massimiliano Soldani Benzi - Italian sculptor and medallist (d. 1740)

Deaths

* David Beck - Dutch portrait painter (b. 1621)
* Jan van Goyen - Dutch landscape painter (b. 1596)
* Dirck Hals - Dutch painter of festivals and ballroom scenes (b. 1591)
* Laurent de La Hire, French painter (b. 1606)
* Gerard van Honthorst - Dutch painter of Utrecht (b. 1592)
* Salomon Koninck - Dutch painter of genre scenes, portraits and an engraver (b. 1609)
* Harmen Steenwijck - Dutch painter of still lifes, notably of fruit (b. 1612)
* Gregorio Bausá - Spanish painter of the Baroque period (b. 1590)
* Francisco Collantes - Spanish Baroque era painter (b. 1599)
* Francisco Herrera the Elder - Spanish painter and founder of the Seville school for the arts (b. 1576)
* Felix Castello - Spanish painter of the Baroque period (b. 1602)
* Jusepe Leonardo - Spanish painter of the Baroque period (b. 1616)
* Guido Ubaldo Abbatini - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1600)
* Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Brescia (b. 1604)
* Jacopo Barbello - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1590)
* Bartolommeo Bianco - Italian architect, engineer, and painter (b. 1604)
* Remigio Cantagallina - Italian etcher, active in the Baroque period (b. 1582)
* Bernardo Cavallino - Italian painter of the Baroque period working in Naples (b. 1616)
* Pieter Neeffs I - Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches (b. 1578)
* Luigi Miradori - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Cremona (b. 1600/1610)
* Massimo Stanzione - Italian Caravaggisti Baroque painter of frescoes (b. 1586)