Events from the year 1672 in art.

Events

*March - Mural painter

Antonio Verrio Antonio Verrio (c. 1636 – 15 June 1707) was an Italian painter. He was responsible for introducing Baroque mural painting into England and served the Crown over a thirty-year period.British Art Journal, Volume X No. 3, Winter/Spring 2009/10 ...

arrives in Britain, where he commences working on the decor of some of the country's great houses. *The Rampjaar, in which the Netherlands is invaded, results in a depression in the art market.Franits, Wayne, ''Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting'', Yale UP, 2004, , pp217 and ff. on 1672 and its effects.

Paintings

* Murillo – '' The Wedding Feast at Cana'' * Kanō Tanyū – ''春景図 (Spring Landscape)'' * Willem van de Velde the Younger – '' Ships on a Stormy Sea'' * Jan Vermeer **'' The Guitar Player'' **''

Lady Standing at a Virginal ''Lady Standing at a Virginal'' is a genre painting created by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in about 1670–1672, now in the National Gallery, London. Description The oil painting depicts a richly dressed woman playing a virginal in a ...

Publications

* Gian Pietro Bellori - ''Le vite de’ pittori, scultori et architetti moderni (The lives of the modern painters, sculptors, and architects)''

Births

* October 1 - René Frémin, French sculptor (died

1744 Events January–March * January 6 – The Royal Navy ship ''Bacchus'' engages the Spanish Navy privateer ''Begona'', and sinks it; 90 of the 120 Spanish sailors die, but 30 of the crew are rescued. * January 24 – The Dag ...

) * October 18 – Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli, Italian painter (died

1740 Events January–March * January 8 – All 237 crewmen on the Dutch East India Company ship ''Rooswijk'' are drowned, when the vessel strikes the shoals of Goodwin Sands, off of the coast of England, as it is beginning its secon ...

) *''date unknown'' ** Alberto Carlieri, Italian painter (died after

1720 Events January–March * February 10 – Edmond Halley is appointed as Astronomer Royal for England. * January 21 – Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm (Great Northern War). * February 17 – The Treaty of ...

) **

Francesco Costa Francesco Costa (1672–1740) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in his Native Genoa. He was the pupil of the painter Gregorio de Ferrari in Genoa, and later of Antonio Maria Haffner. He often painted with Giovanni ...

, Italian painter of ornaments and quadratura (died

) **

Pietro Nelli Pietro Nelli (1672 – after 1730) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period. He was born in Massa, where he had been a pupil of Giovanni Maria Morandi in Rome. He was known for his portraits including those of Cardinal Lodovico Pico (en ...

, Italian portrait painter (died

1730 Events January–March * January 30 (January 19 O.S.) – At dawn, Emperor Peter II of Russia dies of smallpox, aged 14 in Moscow, on the eve of his projected marriage. * February 26 (February 15 O.S.) – Anna of Russia (Ann ...

) **

Giovanni Battista Revello Giovanni Battista Revello (1672–1732), also called ''il Mustacchi'', was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He painted both quadratura and still-life. He was born in Recco near Genoa and studied under Enrico Haffner, and formed a close f ...

, Italian painter of landscape elements for other historical painters (died

1732 Events January–March * January 21 – Russia and Persia sign the Treaty of Riascha at Resht. Based on the terms of the agreement, Russia will no longer establish claims over Persian territories. * February 9 – The Swedish ...

) *''probable'' –

Giuseppe Laudati Giuseppe Laudati (c. 1672 – after 1718) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was born in Perugia and studied under Pietro Montanini in that town, and under Carlo Maratti in Rome , established_title = Founded , establ ...

, Italian painter (died after

1718 Events January – March * January 7 – In India, Sufi rebel leader Shah Inayat Shaheed from Sindh who had led attacks against the Mughal Empire, is beheaded days after being tricked into meeting with the Mughals to discus ...

)

Deaths

*January – Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch animal and landscape painter (born

1636 Events January–March * January 1 – Anthony van Diemen takes office as Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), and will serve until his death in 1645. * January 18 – ''The Duke's Mistress'', the last ...

) * April 1 –

Francisco de Burgos Mantilla Francisco de Burgos Mantilla (1609 or 1612Ebert-Schifferer, Sybille (1999) ''Still Life: A History''. New York: Harry N. Abrams. p. 190. April 1, 1672) was a Spanish Baroque painter of portraits and still lifes. He was born in Burgos but from 16 ...

, Spanish painter (born

1612 Events January–June * January 6 – Axel Oxenstierna becomes Lord High Chancellor of Sweden. He persuades the Riksdag of the Estates to grant the Swedish nobility the right and privilege to hold all higher offices of governme ...

) * May 5 –

Samuel Cooper Samuel or Sam Cooper may refer to: *Samuel Cooper (painter) (1609–1672), English miniature painter *Samuel Cooper (clergyman) (1725–1783), Congregationalist minister in Boston, Massachusetts * Samuel Cooper (surgeon) (1780–1848), English surge ...

, English miniature painter (born

1609 Events January–June * January – The Basque witch trials begin. * January 15 – One of the world's first newspapers, ''Avisa Relation oder Zeitung'', begins publication in Wolfenbüttel (Holy Roman Empire). * January 3 ...

) * October 8 – Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel, Dutch Golden Age painter (born

1622 Events January–May * January 7 – The Holy Roman Empire and Transylvania sign the Peace of Nikolsburg. * February 8 – King James I of England dissolves the English Parliament. * March 12 – Ignatius of Loyola, F ...

) * November 4 –

Lucas van Uden Lucas van Uden (18 October 1595 – 4 November 1672) was a leading Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and engraver, who lived and worked in Antwerp. He was a leading landscape painter who collaborated with various local figure painters. ...

, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in landscapes (born 1595) * November 16 – Esaias Boursse, Dutch painter of genre works (born

1631 Events January–March * January 23 – Thirty Years' War: Sweden and France sign the Treaty of Bärwalde, a military alliance in which France provides funds for the Swedish army invading northern Germany. * February 5 &ndash ...

) *

December 30 Events Pre-1600 *534 – The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire. *999 – Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under king Brian Boru inflict a crushi ...

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Hendrick Bloemaert Hendrick Bloemaert (1601 or 1602 – 30 December 1672) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Biography Hendrick was the oldest son of Abraham Bloemaert. His brothers Cornelis and Adriaen were also painters. In 1626 he was registered in Rome, but b ...

Dutch Golden Age The Dutch Golden Age ( nl, Gouden Eeuw ) was a period in the history of the Netherlands, roughly spanning the era from 1588 (the birth of the Dutch Republic) to 1672 (the Rampjaar, "Disaster Year"), in which Dutch trade, science, and Dutch art, ...

painter (born

1601 This Epoch (reference date)#Computing, epoch is the beginning of the 400-year Gregorian leap-year cycle within which digital files first existed; the last year of any such cycle is the only leap year whose year number is divisible by 100. Jan ...

) *''date unknown'' ** Ambrosio Martínez Bustos, Spanish Baroque painter active in Granada (born

1614 Events January–June * February – King James I of England condemns duels, in his proclamation ''Against Private Challenges and Combats''. * April 5 – Pocahontas is forced into child marriage with English colonist John Rolfe in Ja ...

) ** Ginevra Cantofoli, Italian painter (born

1618 Events January–June * February 26 – Osman II deposes his uncle Mustafa I as Ottoman sultan (until 1622). * March 8 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (after some initial calculations, he so ...

) ** Salvi Castellucci, Italian painter active in

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(born

1608 Events January–June * January – In the Colony of Virginia, Powhatan releases Captain John Smith. * January 2 – The first of the Jamestown supply missions returns to the Colony of Virginia with Christopher Newport comman ...

) ** Viviano Codazzi, Italian painter of landscapes or '' vedute'' (born 1606/1611) ** Obaku Dokuryu, Japanese calligrapher and painter (born

1596 Events January–June * January 6– 20 – An English attempt led by Francis Drake to cross the Isthmus of Panama ends in defeat. * January 28 – Francis Drake dies of dysentery off Portobelo. * February 14 – Archbishop John Whitg ...

) ** Zhou Lianggong, Chinese bureaucrat, poet, essayist and art historian, patron of many important Chinese painters (born

) ** Lorenzo Tinti, Italian painter and engraver (born

1626 Events January–March * January 7 – Polish-Swedish War: Battle of Wallhof in Latvia – Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, defeats a Polish army. * January 9 – Peter Minuit sails from Texel Island for America's Ne ...

) ** Jean Varin,

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sculptor and engraver (born

1604 Events January–June * January 1 – '' The Masque of Indian and China Knights'' is performed by courtiers of James VI and I at Hampton Court. * January 14 – The Hampton Court Conference is held between James I of England ...

) ** Abraham Willemsens, Flemish painter of history and genre paintings (born 1605/1610)

References

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