1611 in art

Events

Paintings

Births

* Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, painter (d. 1665)
* Jan van den Hoecke, Antwerp painter and draftsman (d. 1651)
* Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter (d. 1693)
* Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist (d. 1650)
* Antonio de Pereda - Spanish Baroque era painter (d. 1678)
* Fra Bonaventura Bisi - Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1662)
* Giovanni Battista Bolognini - Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque (d. 1668)
* Giovanni Francesco Cassana - Italian portrait painter of the Baroque period (d. 1691)
* Baldassare Franceschini - late Italian Baroque painter of frescoes (d. 1689)
* Jan Fyt - Flemish animal painter and etcher (d. 1661)
* Diego Quispe Tito - Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting (d. 1681)
* Francesco Guarino - Italian painter active mainly in the mountainous area east of Naples called Irpinia (d. 1651/1654)
* Sebastiano Mazzoni - Italian who painted with unresolved dynamism and from awkward perspectives (d. 1678)
* Simone Pignoni - Italian painter of both then later pious works (d. 1698)
* Francesco Quaini - Italian painter of quadratura (d. 1680)
* (b. 1611/1612): Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet - Dutch painter (d. 1675)

Deaths

* Anton Moller, painter (b. 1563)
* Barthélemy Prieur - French sculptor (b. 1536)
* Jan Soens - Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch (d. 1547)
* Sun Kehong - Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet (b. 1533)