February – Gerrit Dou becomes a pupil of Rembrandt; the latter, then 22 years of age, paints a cheerful self-portrait, which will be sold 380 years later, in 2008, for 4.5 million dollars.
August 10 – Maiden voyage (and sinking) of Swedish royal warship Vasa which is richly decorated with wood sculptures by Mårten Redtmer and others.[1]
Willem van Haecht becomes curator of the art collection owned by Cornelis van der Geest.
↑ Soop, Hans (1992). The Power and the Glory: The Sculptures of The Warship Wasa (2nded.). Kungliga Vitterhets-, historie- och antikvitetsakademien. ISBN91-7402-168-0.
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