- 1659 in art
Events
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Paintings
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Rembrandt - "Jacob Wrestling with the Angel "
*Jan Vermeer - "Officer and a Laughing Girl"Births
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Michael Dahl , Swedishportrait painter (d. 1743)
*Francesco Galli Bibiena , Italian architect/painter (d. 1739)
*Hyacinthe Rigaud , French painter of Catalan origin (d. 1743)
*Faustino Bocchi - Italian painter, active inBrescia , who specialized in bizarre paintings ofdwarfs (d. 1742)
*Niccolò Cassana - Italian painter born inVenice and active during the late-Baroque (d. 1714)
*Giovanni Paolo Castelli - Italian painter, active inRome paintingstill-life paintings of bowls of fruit and flowers (d. 1730)
*Giovanni Battista Marmi - Italian painter of theBaroque period (d. 1686)
*Sebastiano Ricci - Italian painter in the Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting (d. 1734)
*Michiel Maddersteg - Dutch painter (d. 1709)Deaths
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Valerio Castello , Italian painter of theBaroque period (b. 1624)
*Willem Drost - DutchBaroque painter andprintmaker (b. 1633)
*Filippo Gagliardi - Italian painter of theBaroque period, active mainly inRome (b. "unknown")
* Giovanni Martinelli - Italian painter offrescoes ofallegory s (d. 1600/1604)
*Giovanni Pietro Possenti - Italian painter of battle scenes (b. 1618)
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