1617 in art

Events from the year 1617 in art.

Events

• Kanō Tan'yū becomes an official artist of the Tokugawa shogunate.
• Lucas Vorsterman joins the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens, soon becoming Rubens's primary engraver.

Works

Vroom – Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602

• Abu al-Hasan - Shah Jahangir
• Peter Paul Rubens
  • Adoration of the Magi
  • Mars and Rhea Silvia (approximate date)
• Diego Velázquez - The Lunch
• Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom - Dutch Ships Ramming Spanish Galleys off the Flemish Coast in October 1602

Births

• January 22 – Ludovicus Neefs, Flemish painter (died 1649)
• February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish painter and engraver (died 1673)
• May - John Michael Wright,– British baroque portrait painter (died 1694)
• November 19 – Eustache Le Sueur, co-founder of the French Academy of painting (died 1655)
• December – Gerard ter Borch, Dutch subject painter (died 1681)
• December 7 - Evaristo Baschenis, Italian Baroque painter primarily of still lifes (died 1677)
• December 31 – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter best known for his religious works (died 1682)
• date unknown
  • Ambrosius Brueghel, Flemish painter (died 1675)
  • Giovanni Angelo Canini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1666)
  • Lucas Faydherbe, Dutch sculptor and architect (died 1697)
  • Dionisio Lazzari, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1689)
  • Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter (died 1640)
  • Emanuel de Witte, Dutch perspective painter (died 1692)
  • Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (died 1691)
  • Paolo Porpora, Italian painter of floral still lifes (died 1670)
  • Carlo Sacchi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1706)

Deaths

• January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draughtsman and painter (born 1588)
• October 2 – Isaac Oliver, French-born English portrait miniature painter (born 1565)
• date unknown
  • Fabrizio Castello, Italian painter of Genoese origin settled in Spain (born 1562)
  • Louis Finson - Flemish painter of the Dutch Golden Age (born 1580)
  • Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann, German sculptor (born c.1545)
  • Giovanni Battista Vernici, Italian painter (born unknown)
  • Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1542)