1656 in art
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Events

Works

See also: Category:1656 paintings

Johannes Vermeer, The Procuress

• The Procuress – Johannes Vermeer (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden)
• Las Meninas - Diego Velázquez (Museo del Prado, Madrid)

Births

• August 18 - Ferdinando Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer/painter and author (d. 1743)
• December 11 - Johann Michael Rottmayr, Austrian painter (d. 1730)
• Maria Oriana Galli-Bibiena, Italian painter (d. 1749)
• Jacob de Heusch - Dutch painter (d. 1701)
• Willem Wissing - Dutch portrait artist (d. 1687)
• Simone Brentana - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Verona (d. 1742)
• Giovanni Antonio Burrini - Bolognese painter of Late-Baroque or Rococo style (d. 1727)
• Sebastiano Galeotti - peripatetic Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (d. 1746)
• Louis de Deyster - Flemish painter of churches and maker of musical instruments (d. 1711)
• Francesco Trevisani - Italian painter of frescoes, active in the period called either early Rococo or late Baroque (d. 1746)
• Nicolas de Largillière - French painter (d. 1746)
• Massimiliano Soldani Benzi - Italian sculptor and medallist (d. 1740)

Deaths

• David Beck - Dutch portrait painter (b. 1621)
• Jan van Goyen - Dutch landscape painter (b. 1596)
• Dirck Hals - Dutch painter of festivals and ballroom scenes (b. 1591)
• Laurent de La Hire, French painter (b. 1606)
• Gerard van Honthorst - Dutch painter of Utrecht (b. 1592)
• Salomon Koninck - Dutch painter of genre scenes, portraits and an engraver (b. 1609)
• Harmen Steenwijck - Dutch painter of still lifes, notably of fruit (b. 1612)
• Gregorio Bausá - Spanish painter of the Baroque period (b. 1590)
• Francisco Collantes - Spanish Baroque era painter (b. 1599)
• Francisco Herrera the Elder - Spanish painter and founder of the Seville school for the arts (b. 1576)
• Felix Castello - Spanish painter of the Baroque period (b. 1602)
• Jusepe Leonardo - Spanish painter of the Baroque period (b. 1616)
• Guido Ubaldo Abbatini - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1600)
• Giovanni Giacomo Barbelli - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Brescia (b. 1604)
• Jacopo Barbello - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1590)
• Bartolommeo Bianco - Italian architect, engineer, and painter (b. 1604)
• Remigio Cantagallina - Italian etcher, active in the Baroque period (b. 1582)
• Bernardo Cavallino - Italian painter of the Baroque period working in Naples (b. 1616)
• Pieter Neeffs I - Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches (b. 1578)
• Luigi Miradori - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Cremona (b. 1600/1610)
• Massimo Stanzione - Italian Caravaggisti Baroque painter of frescoes (b. 1586)