# 1667 in art

Events from the year 1667 in art.

## Events

* In 1667, the royally sanctioned French institution of art patronage, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (a division of the Académie des beaux-arts), held its first semi-public art exhibit at the Salon Carré

## Paintings

* Ludolf Bakhuizen – The Return of the Warship Hollandia in the Landsdiep near Huisduinen on 3 November 1665
* Abraham van Beijeren – Banquet Still Life (with Mouse)
* Ferdinand Bol – Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter
* Rembrandt
** The Jewish Bride (approximate date; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
** Portrait of an elderly man (Mauritshuis)
* Johannes Vermeer -Mistress and Maid (c.)

## Births

* January 12 - Jonathan Richardson, English portrait painter, writer on art and collector (died 1745)
* February 4 - Alessandro Magnasco, Italian Rococo painter of genre or landscape scenes (died 1749)
* May 2 - Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German painter and engraver who invented the system of three- and four-colour printing (died 1741)
* July 21 - Cristoforo Munari, Italian painter of the late-Baroque specializing in still life paintings (died 1720)
* September 9 - Felice Torelli, Italian painter of altarpieces (died 1748)
* November 5 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter (died 1719)
* December 17 - Jan-Baptist Bosschaert, Flemish painter (died 1746)
* date unknown
** Federiko Benković, Croatian late baroque painter (died 1753)
** Francis Bird, English sculptor (died 1731)
** Michael Feuchtmayer, German member of the Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists (d. unknown)
** Jan Kupecký, Czech and Slovak portrait painter (died 1740)
** Antoine Rivalz, official painter to the town of Toulouse (died 1735)
** Giovanni Tuccari, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1743)
** Cornelis Verelst, Dutch flower painter (died 1734)
** Ned Ward, English writer and publican (died 1731)

## Deaths

* January - Jacob Duck, Dutch painter (born 1600)
* February 10 - Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter (born 1612)
* June - Thomas de Keyser, Dutch painter and architect (born 1596)
* May 22 - Pope Alexander VII, Papal patron of the arts commissioned architectural and sculptural works by Gianlorenzo Bernini (born 1599)
* July 4 - Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1604)
* August 3 – Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, Swiss-Italian Baroque architect in Rome (born 1599)
* August 12 - Cornelius van Poelenburgh, Dutch painter (born 1590)
* September 3 - Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter, architect and sculptor (born 1601)
* October 24 (buried) - Gabriël Metsu, Dutch painter (born 1629)
* December 4 - Michel Lasne, French engraver, draughtsman and collector (born 1590)
* date unknown
** Mario Balassi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1604)
** Orfeo Boselli, Italian sculptor working in Rome (born 1597)
** Francisco Caro, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1627)
** Ignatius Croon, Flemish Baroque painter (born 1639)
** Frans Francken III, Flemish painter (born 1607)
** Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, Spanish painter active in Valencia (born 1600)
** Luigi Primo, Flemish painter of portraits and altarpieces (born 1705)