1642 in art

Events

Paintings

* Rembrandt paints "The Night Watch" (or "The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq") ["see image"] .
* Gerard Dou, Claude Lorrain and Diego Velasquez are painting.

Births

* November 30 - Andrea Pozzo, Italian Baroque architect, decorator, stage designer, painter and art theoretician (d. 1709)
* Jan Weenix - Dutch painter (d. 1719)
* Claudio Coello - Spanish Baroque painter (d. 1693)
* Shitao - Chinese artist (d. 1707)
* Wang Yuanqi - Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty, member of the Four Wangs (d. 1715)
* Francesco Maria Bassi the Elder - Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1700)
* Francesco Bassi - Italian painter active in the early-Baroque period (d. 1732)
* Andrea Pozzo - Italian Jesuit Brother, Baroque painter, architect, decorator, stage designer, and art theoretician (d. 1709)
* Michel Corneille the Younger - French painter, etcher and engraver (d. 1708)
* (b. 1642/1647): Daniel Seiter - Viennese born fresco painter of the Baroque (d. 1705)

Deaths

*August 18 — Guido Reni, Italian painter (born 1575)
* Frans Francken the Younger, Flemish painter (b. 1581)
* Andries Both - Dutch genre painter (b. 1612/1613)
* Pieter van Laer - Dutch painter of genre scenes (b. 1599)
* Eugenio Caxés - Spanish painter of the Baroque period (b. 1577)
* Fabrizio Boschi - Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Florence (b. 1572)
* Shao Mi - Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1592)