1626 in art

Events

Works

*Rembrandt
**"The Angel and the Prophet Balaam"
**"Consul Cerialis and the Germanic Legions"
**"A Musical Gathering"
**"The Rest on the Flight to Egypt" (etching)
**"Tobit and Anna with the Kid"

Births

* Pieter Boel, Flemish painter (d. 1674)
* Jan Steen, Dutch genre painter of the 17th century (also known as the Dutch Golden Age) (d. 1679)
* Simon Ushakov, Russian graphic artist (d. 1686)
* Karel Dujardin - Dutch animal and landscape painter (d. 1678)
* Zhu Da, Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher (d. 1705)
* Francis Barlow - English painter, etcher, and illustrator (d. 1704)
* Bada Shanren - Chinese painter of shuimohua and a calligrapher (d. 1705)
* Alessandro Badiale - Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (d. 1671)
* Andrea Carlone - Italian painter (d. 1697)
* Carlo Cesi - Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Rome (d. 1686)
* Cesare Pronti - Italian painter of quadratura and allegorical figures (d. 1708)
* Lorenzo Tinti - Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque period (d. 1672)
* Pierre Prieur - French enamel painter (d. 1676)
* (b. 1627/1628): William Faithorne - English painter and engraver (d. 1691)

Deaths

* September 8 - Juan Sánchez Cotán, Spanish painter (b. 1560)
* Cristoforo Roncalli, Italian painter (b. 1552)
* Palma il Giovane - Italian Mannerist painter (b. 1544)
* Denis van Alsloot - Flemish painter (b. 1570)
* Paul Brill - landscape painter of frescoes who worked in Rome (b. 1554)
* Antiveduto Grammatica - proto-Baroque Italian painter nicknamed Antiveduto ("foreseen") (b. 1571)
* Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli - Italian painter of frescoes and altarpieces (b. 1573)