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

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  Dou - The Dutch Housewife

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  Falcone - The Anchorite

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  Velázquez - Innocent X

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  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

• 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 Kry?tof Li?ka, 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'oeil (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)

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