1611 in art

Events from the year 1611 in art.

Events

 * The painter Agostino Tassi rapes his pupil Artemisia Gentileschi.

Paintings

 * Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Frances Howard, Countess of Hertford
 * Hendrik Goltzius - Mercury
 * Frans Hals - Jacobus Zaffius (his first known painting)
 * Peter Paul Rubens - The Elevation of the Cross (triptych, Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp), completed 1610–11)
 * Joachim Wtewael - Perseus and Andromeda

Births

 * February 24 (bapt.) - William Dobson, English portrait painter (died 1646)
 * March 15 - Jan Fyt, Flemish animal painter and etcher (died 1661)
 * April 17 - Simone Pignoni, Italian painter of both licentious then later pious works (died 1698)
 * August 4 - Jan van den Hoecke, Antwerp painter and draftsman (died 1651)
 * date unknown
 * Nicolas Baudesson, French flower painter (died 1680)
 * Giovanni Battista Bolognini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1668)
 * Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, painter (died 1665)
 * Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist (died 1650)
 * Giovanni Francesco Cassana, Italian portrait painter (died 1691)
 * Baldassare Franceschini, late Italian Baroque painter of frescoes (died 1689)
 * Muyan, Chinese Chan monk and calligrapher (died 1684)
 * Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting (died 1681)
 * Francesco Guarino, Italian painter active mainly in the mountainous area east of Naples called Irpinia (died 1651/1654)
 * Francesco Quaini, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1680)
 * probable
 * Antonio de Pereda, Spanish painter (died 1678)
 * Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian who painted with unresolved dynamism and from awkward perspectives (died 1678)
 * Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter (died 1693)
 * Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Italian painter (died 1662)
 * (born 1611/1612) - Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet – Dutch painter (died 1675)

Deaths

 * January - Anton Möller, German painter (born 1563)
 * August - Bartholomeus Spranger, Flemish Northern Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher (born 1546)
 * date unknown
 * Luigi Benfatto, Italian painter, nephew of Paolo Veronese (born 1551)
 * Sun Kehong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet (born 1533)
 * Camillo Mariani, Italian sculptor of the early Baroque (born 1565)
 * Barthélemy Prieur, French sculptor (born 1536)
 * Sampson Strong, Dutch-born portrait painter (born 1550)
 * Nicolas van Houy, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1550)
 * Marco Vecellio, Italian painter, nephew of Titian (born 1545)
 * probable
 * Ludovico Buti, Italian painter active mostly in Florence (born 1560)
 * Jan Soens, Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch (born 1547)