1650 in art

Events

Paintings

*Gerard Dou - "The Dutch Housewife"
*Aniello Falcone - "The Anchorite"

Births

* Felice Boselli, Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1732)
* Bernardino Ciceri, painter (d. "unknown")
* Jan Mortel, Dutch painter (d. 1719)
* Valerio Baldassari - Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1695)
* Domenico Maria Bonavera - Italian engraver (d. "unknown")
* Felice Boselli - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Piacenza (d. 1732)
* Rinaldo Botti - Italian painter active in the Baroque period, born in Florence (d. "unknown")
* Margherita Caffi - Italian woman painter of Still lifes of flowers and fruit (d. 1710)
* Giovanni Canti - Italian painter of the Baroque (d. 1716)
* Bernardino Ciceri - Italian painter (d. "unknown")
* Garret Morphey - Irish painter of portraits, genre scenes and landscapes (d. 1716)
* Alessandro Mari - Italian painter of capricci and symbolical representations (d. 1707)
* Carlo Moscatiello - Italian painter of quadratura (d. 1739)
* Giovanni Francesco Venturini - Italian painter and engraver (d. 1710)
* Jean-Baptiste Santerre - French painter (d. 1717)
* Huang Ding - Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (d. 1730)

Deaths

* January 18 - Matteo Rosselli, painter (b. 1578)
* June 19 - Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (born 1593)
* Giovanni Battista Barbiani, Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1593)
* Tommaso Dolabella, Baroque painter from Venice (b. 1570)
* Martin Droeshout, engraver (b. 1601)
* Nicodemo Ferrucci, Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1574)
* Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter (b. 1578)
* Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist (b. 1611)
* Jan Pynas - Dutch Baroque painter (b. 1583)
* Jacob Pynas - Dutch painters of the Baroque period (b. 1592)
* Bartlomiej Strobel, painter (b. 1591)
* Giovanni Battista Barca - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1594)
* Giovanni Battista Braccelli - Italian engraver and painter of the Baroque period, active in Florence (b. 1600)
* Giovanni Campino - Italian painter from Camerino (b. 1590)
* Antonio Randa - Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Ferrara (b. "unknown")
* Carlo Ridolfi - Italian art biographer and painter (b. 1594)
* Alessandro Vitali - Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Baroque periods (b. 1580)
* Zeng Jing - Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1568)