1632 In Art

Events from the year 1632 in art.

Events

* July - Portraitist Anthony van Dyck, newly returned to London, is knighted and granted a pension as '' principalle Paynter in ordinary to their majesties''.
* Construction of the Taj Mahal mausoleum begins at Agra in India, probably to a design by Ustad Ahmad Lahauri. It will continue until 1653.

Works

*Rembrandt
**''The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp''
**'' Jacob de Gheyn''
**''Maurits Huygens''
**'' Philosopher in Meditation'' (or ''Interior with Tobit and Anna'')
* Nicholas Stone - Monument to Heneage Finch
*Jusepe de Ribera
**'' Ixion''
**'' The Blind Sculptor''
*Sir Anthony van Dyck
**''Queen Henrietta Maria''
**''Thetis Receiving the Weapons of Achilles from Hephaestus''
*Diego Velázquez
**'' Christ Crucified''
**'' Temptation of St. Thomas''

Births

*January 11 - Adam Frans van der Meulen, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in battle scenes (died 1690)
*May 13 - Nicolas Pitau, Flemish engraver and printmaker (died 1671)
* August 8 - Johann Carl Loth, German painter active in Venice (died 1698)
* September 12 ''bapt.'' - Claude Lefèbvre, French painter and engraver (died 1675)
* October 31 - Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (died 1675)
*''date unknown''
**Giacomo Alboresi, Italian painter (died 1677)
**Hendrik Bary, Dutch engraver (died 1707)
** Antoine Benoist, French painter and sculptor (died 1717)
** Bartolomeo Biscaino, Italian painter, active in his native Genoa (died 1657)
** Jean-Gilles Delcour, Flemish religious painter (died 1695)
**Enkū, Japanese Buddhist monk and sculptor during the early Edo period (died 1695)
** Wang Hui, Chinese landscape painter, the best known of the Four Wangs (died 1717)
**Frederick Kerseboom, German painter (died 1690)
**Giovanni Battista Merano, Italian painter of frescoes, mainly active in his native Genoa (died ''unknown'')
**Hendrik van Minderhout, Dutch seascape painter (died 1696)
**Jan Wijnants)
*''probable''
** Wu Li, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (died 1718)
** Wang Wu, Chinese painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (died 1690)

Deaths

*January - Abraham Janssens, Flemish painter (born 1567-1576)
*January 29 - Jan Porcellis, Dutch marine artist (born 1583/1585)
* July 17 - Hendrick van Balen, Flemish painter, who was born and died in Antwerp (born 1575)
*August 19 - Valentin de Boulogne, French painter (born 1591)
* October 23 - Giovanni Battista Crespi, Italian painter, sculptor, and architect (born 1573)
*''date unknown''
** Francisco Salmerón, Spanish painter (born 1608)
**Barend van Someren, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1572)
*''probable''
**Carlo Bononi, Italian painter of the School of Ferrara (born 1569)
**Domenico Falcini, Flemish Renaissance painter and engraver (born 1575)
**(died 1632/1633) Tanzio da Varallo, Italian painter of the late- Mannerist or early Baroque period (born 1575/1580)
**David Vinckboons, Dutch painter of Flemish origin (born 1576)

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