1662 in art

Events

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Paintings

Rembrandt – The Sampling Officials

• Philippe de Champaigne – Ex-Voto de 1662
• Rembrandt
  • The Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis (1661–1662)
  • The Sampling Officials (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)

Births

• Pierre Gobert, French painter (died 1744)
• Joseph Christophe (or Christophle), French artist (died 1748)
• Domenico Maria Muratori, Bolognese (Italian) painter, studied under Lorenzo Pasinelli at Bologna (died 1744), painted La mort de Cléopâtre in the Louvre.
• Willem Van Mieris, Dutch painter from Leyden (died 1747)
• Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli, Italian sculptor and gem-engraver of the late Baroque, active in Florence (died 1719)
• Andrea Brustolon, Italian sculptor in wood (died 1732)
• Jan Frans van Bloemen – Flemish landscape painter of the Baroque period (died 1740)
• Paolo de Matteis – Italian painter who worked for the Spanish Viceroy of Naples (died 1728)
• Girolamo Ruggieri – Italian painter of landscapes and battle paintings (died 1717)
• Teresa Scannabecchi – Italian woman painter of the Baroque active in Bologna (died 1708)
• Giuseppe Tortelli – Italian painter of painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Brescia (d. unknown)
• Panagiotis Doxaras – Greek painter who founded the Heptanese School of Greek art (died 1729)

Deaths

• Francisco Lopez Caro, Spanish painter (born 1578)
• Adriaen van de Venne – Dutch Baroque painter of allegories, genre subjects and portraits (born 1589)
• Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck – Dutch portraitist (born 1600/1603)
• Fra Bonaventura Bisi – Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1611)
• Giovanni Francesco Romanelli – Italian painter of frescoes (born 1610)
• Vincenzo Spisanelli – Italian painter of altarpieces (born 1595)
• Abraham de Vries – Dutch painter of the Baroque period (born 1590)