1611 in art

List of years in art (table)
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Events

• The painter Agostino Tassi rapes his pupil Artemisia Gentileschi.^[1]

Paintings

Hals – Jacobus Zaffius

• Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Frances Howard, Countess of Hertford
• Hendrik Goltzius - Mercury
• Frans Hals - Jacobus Zaffius (his first known painting)
• Peter Paul Rubens - The Elevation of the Cross (triptych, Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp), completed 1610–11)
• Joachim Wtewael - Perseus and Andromeda

Births

• February 24 (bapt.) - William Dobson, English portrait painter (died 1646)
• March 15 - Jan Fyt, Flemish animal painter and etcher (died 1661)
• April 17 - Simone Pignoni, Italian painter of both licentious then later pious works (died 1698)
• August 4 - Jan van den Hoecke, Antwerp painter and draftsman (died 1651)
• date unknown
  • Nicolas Baudesson, French flower painter (died 1680)
  • Giovanni Battista Bolognini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1668)
  • Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, painter (died 1665)
  • Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist (died 1650)
  • Giovanni Francesco Cassana, Italian portrait painter (died 1691)
  • Baldassare Franceschini, late Italian Baroque painter of frescoes (died 1689)
  • Muyan, Chinese Chan monk and calligrapher (died 1684)
  • Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting (died 1681)
  • Francesco Guarino, Italian painter active mainly in the mountainous area east of Naples called Irpinia (died 1651/1654)
  • Francesco Quaini, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1680)
• probable
  • Antonio de Pereda, Spanish painter (died 1678)
  • Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian who painted with unresolved dynamism and from awkward perspectives (died 1678)
  • Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter (died 1693)
  • Fra Bonaventura Bisi,Italian painter (died 1662)
• (born 1611/1612) - Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet – Dutch painter (died 1675)

Deaths

• January - Anton Möller, German painter (born 1563)
• August - Bartholomeus Spranger, Flemish Northern Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher (born 1546)
• date unknown
  • Luigi Benfatto, Italian painter, nephew of Paolo Veronese (born 1551)
  • Sun Kehong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet (born 1533)
  • Camillo Mariani, Italian sculptor of the early Baroque (born 1565)
  • Barthélemy Prieur, French sculptor (born 1536)
  • Sampson Strong, Dutch-born portrait painter (born 1550)
  • Nicolas van Houy, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1550)
  • Marco Vecellio, Italian painter, nephew of Titian (born 1545)
• probable
  • Ludovico Buti, Italian painter active mostly in Florence (born 1560)
  • Jan Soens, Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch (born 1547)

References

1. Garrard, Mary D. (1991). Artemisia Gentileschi. Princeton University Press.