1618 in art

Events from the year 1618 in art.

Works

• Anthony van Dyck
  • Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak
• Jacob Jordaens
  • The Adoration of the Shepherds
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Ercole Setti, Italian engraver (born 1530)
  • Unkoku Togan, Japanese painter (born 1547)
  • Maffeo Verona, Italian painter (born 1576)