Events

• Gerard Dou, Claude Lorrain and Diego Vel zquez are painting.

Paintings

Rembrandt - The Night Watch

• Jusepe de Ribera - The Clubfoot
• William Dobson - Charles II, when Prince of Wales, with a Page (approximate date)
• Rembrandt - The Night Watch (or The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq)

Births

• March 2 - Claudio Coello, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1693)
• November 30 Andrea Pozzo, Italian Baroque architect, decorator, stage designer, painter and art theoretician (died 1709)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Bassi, Italian painter active in the early-Baroque period (died 1732)
  • Shitao, Chinese artist (died 1707)
  • Wang Yuanqi, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty, member of the Four Wangs (died 1715)
  • Michel Corneille the Younger, French painter, etcher and engraver (died 1708)
• probable (born 1642/1647) - Daniel Seiter, Vienna-born fresco painter of the Baroque (died 1705)

Deaths

• March 23 - Andries Both, Dutch genre painter (born 1612/1613), drowned in a canal in Venice
• May 6 - Frans Francken the Younger, Flemish painter (born 1581)
• August 18 — Guido Reni, Italian painter (born 1575)
• December 6 - Willem van der Vliet, Dutch painter and uncle of Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet (born 1584)
• date unknown
  • Eugenio Cax s, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (born 1577)
  • Fabrizio Boschi, Italian painter of the early-Baroque period, active in Florence (born 1572)
  • Shao Mi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (born 1592)
• probable - Pieter van Laer, Dutch painter of genre scenes (born 1599)

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