1618 in art
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Events from the year 1618 in art.
Events
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| title=The Waterseller of Seville
| artist=Diego Velázquez
| year=1618
| medium=Oil on canvas
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| city=Florence
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Works
- Anthony van Dyck
- Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak
- Jacob Jordaens
- The Adoration of the Shepherds
- [https://www.wga.hu/html_m/j/jordaens/2/meleager.html Meleager and Atalanta]
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Charles the Bold
- The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
- The Union of Earth and Water (approximate year)
- Diego Velázquez
- Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
- The Farmers' Lunch
- Old Woman Cooking Eggs
- Three Musicians
- The Waterseller of Seville (original version)
Births
- January 1 (baptized) – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (died 1682)
- June 28 – Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver (died 1682)
- September 11 – Francesco Grue, Italian potter and painter (died 1673)
- September 14 – Peter Lely, Dutch portrait painter (died 1680)
- date unknown
- Carlo Cane, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1688)
- Gioseffo Danedi, Italian painter (died 1689)
- Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, Italian painter and etcher (died 1677)
- Cornelis Holsteyn, Dutch painter of historical allegories, portraits, and interior decorations (died 1658)
- Hishikawa Moronobu, Japanese painter (died 1694)
- Gong Xian, Chinese painter (died 1689)
- Giovanni Pietro Possenti, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1659)
- Pieter Hermansz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age genre art painter (died 1678)
- probable
- (born 1608/1618) Ginevra Cantofoli, Italian painter (died 1672)
- (born 1618/1621) – Jacopo Chiavistelli, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1698)
Deaths
- February 21 – Vittorio Baldini, Italian engraver
- April 8 – Antonio Marziale Carracci, Italian painter (born 1583)
- May 24 – Cornelis IJsbrantsz Cussens, Dutch draughtsman and glass painter (born 1580)
- June 29 – Adriaen Collaert, Flemish engraver (born 1560)
- date unknown
- Luis de Carvajal, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (born 1531)
- Ambrosius Francken I, Flemish painter (born 1544){{cite book|author=Gustav Friedrich Waagen|title=Handbook of Painting: The German, Flemish, and Dutch Schools|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YatRAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA225|year=1860|publisher=John Murray|pages=225}}
- Giovanni Guerra, Italian draughtsman and painter (born 1544)
- Paolo Camillo Landriani, Italian painter (born c. 1560)
- Pietro Malombra, Italian painter (born 1556)
- Giulio Mazzoni, Italian painter and stuccoist (born 1525)
- Fillide Melandroni, Italian courtesan, model for Caravaggio (born 1581)
- Camillo Rizzi (or Ricci), Italian painter (born 1580){{cite book|author=Joseph Thomas|title=The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology: Pro - Zyp|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3WS1PS0MIFYC&pg=PA1890|date=1 January 2010|publisher=Cosimo, Inc.|isbn=978-1-61640-074-3|pages=1890}}
- Ercole Setti, Italian engraver (born 1530)
- Unkoku Togan, Japanese painter (born 1547)
- Maffeo Verona, Italian painter (born 1576)