- 1616 in art
Events
* (unknown)
Paintings
*
Jacob Jordaens painted "Adoration of the Shepherds", his earliest dated extant work.
*Isaac Oliver painted a miniature of Donne.
*Simon Van De Passe made a copperplate engraving portrait ofPocahontas (1595-1617), later published in John Smith's "Generall Historie of Virginia" in 1624.
*Peter Paul Rubens painted "Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt".Births
*
Philips Angel - Dutch painter (d. 1683)
*Ferdinand Bol - Dutchartist ,etcher , anddraftsman (d. 1680)
*Jusepe Leonardo - Spanish painter of theBaroque period (d. 1656)
*Bernardo Cavallino - Italian painter of theBaroque period working inNaples (d. 1656)
*Pierfrancesco Cittadini - Italian painter of lush and richstill lifes (d. 1681)
*Carlo Dolci - Italian painter of chiefly sacred subjects (d. 1686)
*Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia - Italian painter and artist biographer of theBaroque period (d. 1680)
* (b.1616 /1617 Caesar van Everdingen - Dutchportrait painter (d. 1678)Deaths
*
Matteo Perez d'Aleccio , Italian painter of devotional, historical and maritime subjects during theMannerist period (born c.1547)
*Cornelis Ketel - Dutch Mannerist painter (b. 1548)
*Jacques Bellange - French artist andprintmaker from Lorraine (b. 1575)
*Orazio Borgianni - Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods (b. 1575)
*Frans Francken I - Flemish painter (b. 1544)
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.