1617 in art

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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.

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

Abu al-Hasan - Shah Jahangir
Gian Lorenzo Bernini - marble sculptures
- Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence (probable date)
- with Pietro Bernini - Boy with a Dragon
Frans Hals - Shrovetide Revellers
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

January 19 – Lucas Faydherbe, Dutch sculptor and architect (died 1697)
January 22 – Ludovicus Neefs, Flemish painter (died 1649)
February 5 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish painter and engraver (died 1673)
May – John Michael Wright, English baroque portrait painter (died 1694)
August 10 (bapt.) – Ambrosius Brueghel, Flemish painter (died 1675)
October 17 – Dionisio Lazzari, Italian sculptor and architect (died 1689)
November 19 – Eustache Le Sueur, co-founder of the French Academy of painting (died 1655)
November 21 – Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (died 1691)
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
- Emanuel de Witte, Dutch perspective painter (died 1692)
- Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter (died 1640)
- Paolo Porpora, Italian painter of floral still lifes (died 1670)
- Carlo Sacchi, Italian painter and engraver (died 1706)

January 1 – Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch printmaker, draughtsman and painter (born 1588)
September – Louis Finson - Flemish painter of the Dutch Golden Age (born 1580)^[1]
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)^[2]
- Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann, German sculptor (born c.1545)
- Giovanni Battista Vernici, Italian painter (born unknown)
- Andrea Vicentino, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1542)^[3]

^ John Michael Montias (2002). Art at Auction in 17th Century Amsterdam. Amsterdam University Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-90-5356-591-9.
^ William Stirling Maxwell (1848). Annals of the Artists of Spain. J. Ollivier. p. 193.
^ Pietro Zampetti (1969). A Dictionary of Venetian Painters: 16th century. F. Lewis. p. 17.