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.
Willem van Haecht becomes curator of the art collection owned by Cornelis van der Geest.
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