1616 in art

Events

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Paintings

• Jacob Jordaens painted Adoration of the Shepherds, his earliest dated extant work.
• Isaac Oliver painted a miniature of Donne.
• Simon van de Passe made an engraved portrait of Pocahontas (1595–1617), later published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia in 1624.
• Peter Paul Rubens painted Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt.
• Frans Hals painted The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company.
• Sigismund of Seeon paints Trithemius sui ipsius vindex sive Steganographiae in Ingolstadt.

Births

• Philips Angel – Dutch painter (d. 1683)
• Ferdinand Bol – Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman (d. 1680)
• Jusepe Leonardo – Spanish painter of the Baroque period (d. 1656)
• Bernardo Cavallino – Italian painter of the Baroque period working in Naples (d. 1656)
• Pierfrancesco Cittadini – Italian painter of lush and rich still lifes (d. 1681)
• Carlo Dolci – Italian painter of chiefly sacred subjects (d. 1686)
• Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia – Italian painter and artist biographer of the Baroque period (d. 1680)
• (b. 1616/1617) Caesar van Everdingen – Dutch portrait painter (d. 1678)
• Sébastien Bourdon - French painter and engraver (d. 1671)

Deaths

• Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter of devotional, historical and maritime subjects during the Mannerist period (born c.1547)
• Cornelis Ketel – Dutch Mannerist painter (b. 1548)
• Jacques Bellange – French artist and printmaker from Lorraine (b. 1575)
• Orazio Borgianni – Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods (b. 1575)
• Frans Francken I – Flemish painter (b. 1544)