1612 in art

Events from the year 1612 in art.

Events

Gentileschi – Judith Beheading Holofernes

February 9 - Pier Francesco Mola, Italian painter of frescoes (died 1666)
April 12 - Simone Cantarini, Italian painter and etcher of the Bolognese School of painting (died 1648)
August 2 - Saskia van Uylenburgh, Dutch wife and model of Rembrandt (died 1642)
December 2 (baptized) - David Ryckaert III, Flemish painter, member of the Ryckaert family of artists (died 1661)
date unknown
- Michel Anguier, French sculptor (died 1686)
- Barent Avercamp, Dutch painter (died 1679)
- Baldassare Bianchi, Italian painter (died 1679)
- Abraham Bosschaert, member of the Bosschaert family of still life painters (died 1643)
- Kun Can, Chinese painter from Hunan who spent most of his life in Nanjing (died 1674)
- Francisco de Burgos Mantilla, Spanish painter (died 1672)
- Francesco Francanzano, Italian painter who participated in the Masaniello rebellion (died 1657)
- Frans Wouters, Flemish Baroque painter (died 1659)
- Zhou Lianggong, Chinese bureaucrat, poet, essayist and art historian (died 1672), patron of many important Chinese painters
probable
- Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter (died 1667)
- Harmen Steenwijck, Dutch painter of still lifes, notably of fruit (died 1656)
- Andries Both, Dutch genre painter (died 1642)