1648 in art

Events

• Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture founded in Paris.
• Carlo Ridolfi publishes a biography of Titian and other Venetian artists, Le maraviglie dell'Arte ovvero, Le vite degli Illustri Pittori Veneti e dello Stato.

Paintings

• Claude Lorrain
  • Seaport with The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
  • Landscape with Dancing Figures (The Mill)
  • Landscape with Paris and Oenone
  • Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah
• Peter Lely - Portrait of Charles I of England and the Duke of York
• Nicolas Poussin
  • The Funeral of Phocion
  • The Holy Family on the Steps
  • Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion
  • Rembrandt - Supper at Emmus
  • Seven Sacraments, Second series (completed)
• Rembrandt-Supper at Emmus
• Gerard ter Borch - The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648
• Bartholomeus van der Helst - Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster

Births

• March 31 - Sebastiaen van Aken, Flemish historical painter (died 1722)
• April 4 - Grinling Gibbons, English master wood carver (died 1721)
• May 23 - Johan Teyler, Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver (died 1709)
• August 22 - Gerard Hoet, Dutch painter (died 1733)
• October 29 - John Verelst, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (died 1679)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Raffaele Badaracco, Italian painter (died 1726)
  • Ambrogio Besozzi, Italian painter (died 1706)
  • Bartolomeo Bimbi, Florentine painter of still lifes (died 1723)
  • Gabriel de la Corte, Spanish painter (died 1694)
  • Marcantonio Franceschini, Italian painter of religious and mythological subjects (died 1729)
  • Jean Mauger, French medallist (died 1712)
  • Johannes Skraastad, woodcarver (died 1700)
• probable - Paul Strudel, Austrian sculptor, architect, engineer, and painter (died 1708)

Deaths

• February - Lawrence Hilliard, English miniature painter (born 1582)
• May 25 - Antioine Le Nain, French painter of the Le Nain family of painters (born 1599)
• October 15 - Simone Cantarini, Italian painter and etcher of the Bolognese School of painting (born 1612)
• December - Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (born 1594)
• December 18 - Hendrick Goudt, Dutch painter (born 1583)
• date unknown
  • Francisco Agullo, Spanish painter (born unknown)
  • Cesare Bassano, Italian painter and engraver (born 1584)
  • Antonio de Puga, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1602)
  • Zacharias Paulusz, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (born 1580)
  • Andries Jacobsz Stock, Flemish engraver, printmaker and illustrator (born 1580)
  • Jacob van Geel, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1585)
  • Diego Vidal de Liendo, Spanish painter (born 1622)

References

References

1. (1853). "Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture depuis 1648 jusqu'en 1664. Tome 1 / [Henry Testelin]; publiés par M. Anatole de Montaiglon,...".
2. (10 September 2003). "Nicolas Poussin and his Phocion landscapes".
3. "'Landscape with the ashes of Phocion', Nicolas Poussin, 1648". National Museums Liverpool.