1672 in art

Events from the year 1672 in art.

Events

• March - Mural painter Antonio Verrio arrives in Britain, where he commences working on the decor of some of the country's great houses.
• The Rampjaar, in which the Netherlands is invaded, results in a depression in the art market.^[1]

Paintings

Kanō Tanyū, 春景図 (Spring Landscape), 1672

• Murillo – The Wedding Feast at Cana
• Kanō Tanyū – 春景図 (Spring Landscape)
• Willem van de Velde the Younger – Ships on a Stormy Sea
• Jan Vermeer
  • The Guitar Player
  • Lady Standing at a Virginal

Publications

• Gian Pietro Bellori - Le vite de’ pittori, scultori et architetti moderni (The lives of the modern painters, sculptors, and architects)

Births

• October 1 - René Frémin, French sculptor (died 1744)
• October 18 – Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli, Italian painter (died 1740)
• date unknown
  • Alberto Carlieri, Italian painter (died after 1720)
  • Francesco Costa, Italian painter of ornaments and quadratura (died 1740)
  • Pietro Nelli, Italian portrait painter (died 1730)
  • Giovanni Battista Revello, Italian painter of landscape elements for other historical painters (died 1732)
• probable – Giuseppe Laudati, Italian painter (died after 1718)

Deaths

• January – Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch animal and landscape painter (born 1636)
• April 1 – Francisco de Burgos Mantilla, Spanish painter (born 1612)
• May 5 – Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (born 1609)
• October 8 – Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1622)
• November 4 – Lucas van Uden, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in landscapes (born 1595)
• November 16 – Esaias Boursse, Dutch painter of genre works (born 1631)
• December 30 – Hendrick Bloemaert, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1601)
• date unknown
  • Ambrosio Martínez Bustos, Spanish Baroque painter active in Granada (born 1614)
  • Ginevra Cantofoli, Italian painter (born 1618)
  • Salvi Castellucci, Italian painter active in Arezzo (born 1608)
  • Viviano Codazzi, Italian painter of landscapes or vedute (born 1606/1611)
  • Obaku Dokuryu, Japanese calligrapher and painter (born 1596)
  • Zhou Lianggong, Chinese bureaucrat, poet, essayist and art historian, patron of many important Chinese painters (born 1612)
  • Lorenzo Tinti, Italian painter and engraver (born 1626)
  • Jean Varin, French sculptor and engraver (born 1604)
  • Abraham Willemsens, Flemish painter of history and genre paintings (born 1605/1610)

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