Seaport (1674) by Claude Lorrain.

June 7: First Battle of Schooneveld (by Willem van de Velde the Elder, 1674).

Events

• The Acad mie royale de peinture et de sculpture holds the first Salon in Paris.

Paintings

• Claude Lorrain Seaport
• Willem van de Velde the Elder The Battle of Schooneveld

Births

• January 12 Alexis Simon Belle French portrait painter (died 1734)
• June 28 Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome (died 1755)
• date unknown
  • Giuseppe Palmieri, Italian painter (died 1740)
  • Diego Francesco Carlone, Italian sculptor (died 1750)
  • Giampietro Zanotti, Italian painter and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (died 1765)
• probable Onofrio Avellino, Italian painter (died 1741)

Deaths

• February Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter (born 1596)
• June 4 Jan Lievens, Dutch painter and visual artist (born 1607)
• July 30 Karel kr ta, Czech Baroque painter (born 1610)
• September 29 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1621)
• date unknown
  • Pieter Boel, Flemish painter (born 1626)
  • Pieter de Jode II, engraver (born 1601)
  • Vincenzo Manenti, Italian painter who worked on the cathedral at Tivoli (born 1600)
  • Kan Tany , Japanese painter (born 1602)
  • Tom s de Yepes, Spanish painter of primarily bodeg ns (born 1595)
• probable
  • Kun Can, Chinese painter from Hunan who spent most of his life in Nanjing (born 1612)
  • Bartolommeo Torregiani, Italian painter of landscapes and portraits (b. unknown)

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