1674 in art

Events

* "none listed"

Paintings

* Claude Lorrain painted "Seaport" ("see image").
* Willem van de Velde the Elder painted the "First Battle of Schooneveld"

Births

*January 12: Alexis Simon Belle French portrait painter (d. 1734)
* Onofrio Avellino - Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1741)
* Pier Leone Ghezzi - Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome (d. 1755)
* Giuseppe Palmieri - Italian painter of genre hunting scenes (d. 1740)
* Giampietro Zanotti - Italian painter and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (d. 1765)
* Diego Francesco Carlone - Italian sculptor (d. 1750)

Deaths

* Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter (b. 1596)
* Jan Lievens, Dutch painter and visual artist (b. 1607)
* Kanō Tanyū, Japanese painter (b. 1602)
* Pieter Boel, Flemish painter (b. 1626)
* Gerbrand van den Eeckhout - Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age (b. 1621)
* Pieter de Jode II, engraver (b. 1601)
* Kun Can - Chinese painter from Hunan who spent most of his life in Nanjing (b. 1612)
* Vincenzo Manenti - Italian painter who worked on the cathedral at Tivoli (b. 1600)
* Bartolommeo Torregiani - Italian painter of landscapes and portraits (b. "unknown")