# 1650 in art

Events from the year 1650 in art.

## Events

* Giovanni Angelo Canini is received into the Accademia di San Luca of Rome
* Pieter van Bredael enters the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp.
* Govert Dircksz Camphuysen becomes a poorter and moves from Jordaan to Kalverstraat

## Paintings

* Dou – The Dutch Housewife
* Falcone – The Anchorite
* Velázquez – Innocent X
* van der Neer - Moonlit Landscape with Bridge
* Bartolomeo Biscaino, Adoration of the Magi
* Claude Lorrain
** Coast Scene with the landing of Aeneas
** View of La Crescenza
* Gerard Dou – The Dutch Housewife
* Aniello Falcone – The Anchorite
* David Ryckaert – Temptation of St. Anthony
* Aernout van der Neer – Moonlit Landscape with Bridge (1648–50)
* Gerard van Honthorst – Portrait of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
* Diego Velázquez – approximate completion date
** Portrait of Innocent X
** Portrait of Juan de Pareja
* Helmich van Thweenhuysen II - Portrait of a Clergyman

## Births

* January 11 - Diana Glauber, Dutch-German painter (died 1721)
* April 16 - Jean Joly, French sculptor (died 1740)
* April 20 - Felice Boselli, Italian painter, active mainly in Piacenza (died 1732)
* October - Jan Mortel, Dutch painter (died 1719)
* date unknown
** Rinaldo Botti, Italian painter born in Florence (died unknown)
** Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles, French engraver, painter, and collector (died 1709)
** Margherita Caffi, Italian woman painter of Still lifes of flowers and fruit (died 1710)
** Bernardino Ciceri, Italian painter (died unknown)
** Jean Cornu, French sculptor (died 1710/1715)
** Francisco de Artiga, Spanish landscape and historical painter (died 1711)
** Alessandro Mari, Italian painter of capricci and symbolical representations (died 1707)
** Carlo Moscatiello, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1739)
** Giovanni Francesco Venturini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1710)
** Huang Ding, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (died 1730)
* probable
** Valerio Baldassari, Italian painter (died 1695)
** Domenico Maria Bonavera, Italian engraver (died unknown)
** Giovanni Canti, Italian] painter of the Baroque (died 1716)
** Jan Kryštof Liška, Czech Baroque painter (died 1712)
** Garret Morphey, Irish painter of portraits, genre works and landscapes (died 1716)
** John Slezer, Dutch- or German-born military engineer and artist (died 1717)
** Jan van der Vaardt, Dutch painter of portraits, landscapes and trompe-l'œil (died 1727)

## Deaths

* January 17 – Tommaso Dolabella, Venetian painter (born 1570)
* January 18 – Matteo Rosselli, Italian painter (born 1578)
* June 19 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (born 1593)
* July 20 – Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter (born 1578)
* December – Jacob Pynas, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1583)
* date unknown
** Giovanni Battista Barbiani, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1593)
** Giovanni Battista Barca, Italian painter (born 1594)
** Giovanni Campino, Italian painter from Camerino (born 1590)
** Martin Droeshout, English engraver (born 1601)
** Nicodemo Ferrucci, Italian painter (born 1574)
** Guy François, French painter (born c.1578)
** Baltazar Kuncz, Polish sculptor and woodcarver (born 1580)
** Jean Nicolle, French painter (born 1610)
** Antonio Randa, Italian painter active in Ferrara (born unknown)
** Bartholomeus Strobel, Silesian Baroque painter (born 1591)
** Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist (born 1611)
** Gerrit van Bloclant, Dutch Renaissance painter (born 1578)
** Alessandro Vitali, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Baroque periods (born 1580)