1667 in art

Events from the year 1667 in art.

Events

• In 1667, the royally sanctioned French institution of art patronage, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (a division of the Académie des beaux-arts), held its first semi-public art exhibit at the Salon Carré

Paintings

Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride

• Ludolf Bakhuizen – The Return of the Warship Hollandia in the Landsdiep near Huisduinen on 3 November 1665
• Abraham van Beijeren – Banquet Still Life (with Mouse)
• Ferdinand Bol – Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter ^[1]
• Rembrandt
  • The Jewish Bride (approximate date; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
  • Portrait of an elderly man (Mauritshuis)
• Johannes Vermeer -Mistress and Maid (c.)

Births

• January 12 - Jonathan Richardson, English portrait painter, writer on art and collector (died 1745)
• February 4 - Alessandro Magnasco, Italian Rococo painter of genre or landscape scenes (died 1749)
• May 2 - Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German painter and engraver who invented the system of three- and four-colour printing (died 1741)
• July 21 - Cristoforo Munari, Italian painter of the late-Baroque specializing in still life paintings (died 1720)
• September 9 - Felice Torelli, Italian painter of altarpieces (died 1748)
• November 5 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter (died 1719)
• December 17 - Jan-Baptist Bosschaert, Flemish painter (died 1746)
• date unknown
  • Federiko Benković, Croatian late baroque painter (died 1753)
  • Francis Bird, English sculptor (died 1731)
  • Michael Feuchtmayer, German member of the Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists (d. unknown)
  • Jan Kupecký, Czech and Slovak portrait painter (died 1740)
  • Antoine Rivalz, official painter to the town of Toulouse (died 1735)
  • Giovanni Tuccari, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1743)
  • Cornelis Verelst, Dutch flower painter (died 1734)
  • Ned Ward, English writer and publican (died 1731)

Deaths

• January - Jacob Duck, Dutch painter (born 1600)
• February 10 - Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter (born 1612)
• June - Thomas de Keyser, Dutch painter and architect (born 1596)
• May 22 - Pope Alexander VII, Papal patron of the arts commissioned architectural and sculptural works by Gianlorenzo Bernini (born 1599)
• July 4 - Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1604)
• August 3 – Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, Swiss-Italian Baroque architect in Rome (born 1599)
• August 12 - Cornelius van Poelenburgh, Dutch painter (born 1590)
• September 3 - Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter, architect and sculptor (born 1601)
• October 24 (buried) - Gabriël Metsu, Dutch painter (born 1629)
• December 4 - Michel Lasne, French engraver, draughtsman and collector (born 1590)
• date unknown
  • Mario Balassi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1604)
  • Orfeo Boselli, Italian sculptor working in Rome (born 1597)
  • Francisco Caro, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1627)
  • Ignatius Croon, Flemish Baroque painter (born 1639)
  • Frans Francken III, Flemish painter (born 1607)
  • Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, Spanish painter active in Valencia (born 1600)
  • Luigi Primo, Flemish painter of portraits and altarpieces (born 1705)

References

1. "Portrait of Admiral Michiel Adriaensz. de Ruyter". Web Gallery of Art . Retrieved 15 December 2025.