1621 in art

Events from the year 1621 in art.

Events

 * Dutch painter Johannes van der Beeck is jailed for failing to pay alimony to his former wife Neeltgen van Camp.

Paintings

 * Giovanni Francesco Barbieri – The Suicide of Cleopatra
 * Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger – Susanna Temple
 * Guercino
 * Aurora (fresco, Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome)
 * Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (approximate date)
 * Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri – Virgin and Child
 * Jacob Jordaens – The Family of the Artist (1621-2)
 * Dirck van Baburen – Youth Playing a Small Whistle
 * Domenico Zampieri – The Assumption of Mary Magdalene into Heaven

Births

 * May 25 – David Beck, Dutch portrait painter (died 1656)
 * June
 * Allaert van Everdingen, Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint (died 1675)
 * Isaac van Ostade, Dutch genre and landscape painter (died 1649)
 * August 19 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, painter of the Dutch Golden Age (died 1674)
 * date unknown
 * Giacinto Brandi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome and Naples (died 1691)
 * Fabrizio Chiari, painter and engraver (died 1695)
 * Jacques Courtois, French painter (died 1676)
 * Giuseppe Diamantini, Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period (died 1705)
 * Albrecht Kauw, Swiss still-life painter, cartographer and a painter of vedute (died 1681)
 * Matthew Snelling, English miniature painter (died 1678)
 * Robert Streater, English landscape, history, still-life and portrait artist, architectural painter, and etcher (died 1679)
 * Hendrick van Balen the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1663)
 * Jan Baptist Weenix, painter of the Dutch Golden Age (died 1660)
 * probable – Giulio Cesare Milani, Italian painter (died 1678)

Deaths

 * April 1 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (born 1577)
 * May 15 – Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch sculptor and architect (born 1565)
 * date unknown
 * Cornelis Boel, Flemish draughtsman and engraver (born 1576)
 * Louis de Caullery, French painter (born 1555)
 * Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (born 1573)
 * Marzio di Colantonio, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes, and fresco decorations (born 1560)
 * Dirk Pietersz, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1558)
 * Terenzio Terenzi, Italian painter (born 1575)
 * Giovanni Vasanzio, Dutch-born architect, garden designer and engraver (born 1550)