1663 in art

Events from the year 1663 in art.

Events[edit]

• Claude Lorrain completes his last etching, The Goatherd.

Paintings[edit]

• Gerrit Dou – The Dropsical Woman
• Pieter de Hooch
  • A Game of Nine Pins (approximate date of first version, Waddesdon Manor, England)
  • A Woman Peeling Apples
• Elisabetta Sirani – Virgin and Child
• Jan Vermeer
  • Woman Holding a Balance
  • Woman Reading a Letter
  • Young Woman with a Water Jug (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Births[edit]

• January 20 - Luca Carlevarijs or Carlevaris, Italian painter of landscapes (died 1730)
• date unknown
  • Michelangelo Cerruti, Italian fresco artist (died 1749)
  • Gennaro Greco, Italian painter, also known as "Il Mascacotta", veduta painter (died 1714)
  • Amalia Wilhelmina Königsmarck, Swedish painter (died 1740)
  • Louis Laguerre, French decorative painter working in England (died 1721)
  • Nicola Malinconico, Neapolitan painter (died 1721)
  • Pierre Drevet, French portrait engraver (died 1738)
  • Ogata Kenzan, Japanese potter and painter (died 1743)
  • Giovanni Odazzi, Italian painter and etcher (died 1731)
  • Giacomo Parolini, Italian painter of altarpieces (died 1733)
  • Robert van Audenaerde, Flemish painter and engraver (died 1748)
  • Sieuwert van der Meulen, Dutch painter (died 1730)
• probable - Pietro da Pietri, Italian painter of an altarpiece for Santa Maria in Via Lata (died 1708, 1716, or 1721)

Deaths[edit]

• July – Lubin Baugin, French painter (born 1610)
• July 21 - Hendrickje Stoffels, model and mistress of Rembrandt (born 1626)
• date unknown
  • Guido Cagnacci, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (born 1601)
  • Michel Dorigny, French painter and engraver (born 1617)
  • Balthazar Gerbier, Dutch art advisor and designer at the English court (born 1592)
  • Domenico Manetti, Italian painter (born 1609)
  • Jan Miel, Flemish painter (born 1599)
  • Francesco Allegrini da Gubbio, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1587)
  • Hendrick van Balen the Younger, Flemish painter (born 1621)
• probable
  • Michiel II Coignet, Flemish painter who specialized in small paintings for cabinets (born 1618)
  • Chiara Varotari, Italian painter (born 1584)