1618 in art

Events from the year 1618 in art.

Works

 * Anthony van Dyck
 * Saint Martin Dividing his Cloak
 * Jacob Jordaens
 * The Adoration of the Shepherds
 * Meleager and Atalanta
 * Peter Paul Rubens
 * Charles the Bold
 * The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus
 * The Union of Earth and Water (approximate year)
 * Diego Velázquez
 * Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
 * The Farmers' Lunch
 * Old Woman Cooking Eggs
 * Three Musicians
 * The Waterseller of Seville (original version)

Births

 * January 1 (baptized) – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (died 1682)
 * June 28 – Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver (died 1682)
 * September 11 – Francesco Grue, Italian potter and painter (died 1673)
 * September 14 – Peter Lely, Dutch portrait painter (died 1680)
 * date unknown
 * Carlo Cane, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1688)
 * Ginevra Cantofoli, Italian painter (died 1672)
 * Gioseffo Danedi, Italian painter (died 1689)
 * Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, Italian painter and etcher (died 1677)
 * Cornelis Holsteyn, Dutch painter of historical allegories, portraits, and interior decorations (died 1658)
 * Hishikawa Moronobu, Japanese painter (died 1694)
 * Gong Xian, Chinese painter (died 1689)
 * Giovanni Pietro Possenti, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1659)
 * Pieter Hermansz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age genre art painter (died 1678)
 * probable (born 1618/1621) - Jacopo Chiavistelli, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1698)

Deaths

 * February 21 – Vittorio Baldini, Italian engraver
 * April 8 – Antonio Marziale Carracci, Italian painter (born 1583)
 * May 24 – Cornelis IJsbrantsz Cussens, Dutch draughtsman and glass painter (born 1580)
 * June 29 – Adriaen Collaert, Flemish engraver (born 1560)
 * date unknown
 * Luis de Carvajal, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (born 1531)
 * Ambrosius Francken I, Flemish painter (born 1544)
 * Giovanni Guerra, Italian draughtsman and painter (born 1544)
 * Paolo Camillo Landriani, Italian painter (born c. 1560)
 * Pietro Malombra, Italian painter (born 1556)
 * Giulio Mazzoni, Italian painter and stuccoist (born 1525)
 * Fillide Melandroni, Italian courtesan, model for Caravaggio (born 1581)
 * Camillo Rizzi (or Ricci), Italian painter (born 1580)
 * Ercole Setti, Italian engraver (born 1530)
 * Unkoku Togan, Japanese painter (born 1547)
 * Maffeo Verona, Italian painter (born 1576)