# 1660 in art

Events from the year 1660 in art.

## Events

* November – The Dutch Gift: a collection including 28 mostly Italian Renaissance paintings and a dozen classical sculptures is presented to the newly restored King Charles II of England by the States-General of the Netherlands.
* To circumvent restrictions placed by the Amsterdam painters' guild on bankrupts trading as painters, Rembrandt's son Titus van Rijn and mistress Hendrickje Stoffels set up a business as art dealers, nominally employing Rembrandt.

## Paintings

* Aelbert Cuyp – approximate date
** The Maas at Dordrecht
** River Landscape with Horseman and Peasants
* Allaert van Everdingen – Nordic Landscape with a Castle on a Hill (approximate date)
* Rembrandt
** Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther
** David and Saul
** Self Portrait
** Titus the Artist's Son
* Jan Steen – An interior with the artist eating oysters and Skittle Players outside an Inn
* Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten – A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House (approximate date)
* Velázquez – Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress (completed (or perhaps painted) after the death of Velázquez by his pupil Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo)
* Jan Vermeer
** Girl Interrupted at Her Music
** The Girl with the Wine Glass
** The Glass of Wine
** View of Delft

## Births

* January 27 - Felice Cignani, Italian painter from Bologna (died 1724), son of Carlo Cignani
* March - Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer, German sculptor and stuccoist (died 1718)
* March 28 - Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht (died 1719)
* April 24 - Cornelis Dusart, Dutch genre painter, draftsman, and printmaker (died 1704)
* By May - Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter (died 1685)
* June 17 - Jan van Mieris, Dutch painter (died 1690)
* date unknown
** Antonio Amorosi, Italian painter, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome (died 1738)
** Francesco Bruni, Italian engraver (died unknown)
** John Closterman, portrait painter (died 1711)
** John Faber the Elder, Dutch portrait engraver active in London (died 1721)
** Cesare Fantetti, Italian designer and etcher (died unknown)
** Christopher Elias Heiss, German painter and printmaker (died 1731)
** Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, art historian (died 1727)
** Gao Qipei, Chinese painter of landscapes and figures (died 1734)
** Tobias Querfurt, German painter, draughtsman, and engraver (died 1734)
** Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Florentine painter (died 1731)
** Chen Shu, Chinese painter (died 1736)
** Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter, Polish painter and engraver (died 1711)
* probable
** Andrés Pérez, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1727)
** Johann Gustav Stockenberg, Swedish sculptor and stonemason (died 1710)
** Peter Strudel, Austrian sculptor and painter (died 1714)
** Jan Joost van Cossiau, Flemish landscape painter and engraver (died 1732)
** Adriaen van Salm, Dutch draftsman and painter (died 1720)

## Deaths

* January 1 - Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter (born 1597)
* January 16 - Peter Wtewael, Dutch painter, son of Joachim Wtewael (born 1596)
* February 2 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age (born 1615)
* February 10 - Judith Leyster, Dutch painter of Haarlem (born 1609)
* March 5 - Felice Ficherelli, Italian painter active in Tuscany (born 1605)
* March 9 - Hieronymus Joachims, Austrian painter (born 1619)
* April 6 - Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian painter of small canvases of genre scenes (born 1602)
* July 2 - Francesco Maffei, Italian painter characterized by provincial stylistic quirks (born 1605)
* July 27 - Giovanni Battista Vanni, Italian painter of frescoes and engraver (born 1599)
* August 2 - Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter of quadratura (born 1609)
* August 6 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (born 1599)
* September 22 - Pieter de Ring, Dutch painter famous for his opulent, flashy still lifes (born 1615)
* October 4 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (born 1578)
* October 20 - Claude Deruet, French painter (born 1588)
* November 30 - Caterina Ginnasi, Italian painter of altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia alle Botteghe Oscure (born 1590)
* date unknown
** Esteban March, Spanish painter (born 1590)
** Filippo d'Angeli, Italian painter of battle scenes with small figures (born 1600)
** Giacomo Cavedone, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (born 1577)
** Alexander Cooper, English Baroque miniature painter (born 1609)
** Giovanni Battista Discepoli, Italian painter who was crippled (born 1590)
** Bernardino Gagliardi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1609)
** Richard Tassel, French painter (born 1582)
* probable
** Giuseppe Caletti, Italian painter and engraver (born 1600)
** Antonio Rocca, Italian painter in Rome who became a monk (date of birth unknown)
** Juan Valdelmira de Leon, Spanish of primarily still-life paintings of fruit and flowers (born 1630)
** Jan Baptist Weenix, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1621)