1643 in art

Events from the year 1643 in art.

Events

 * Painter Peter Lely moves from Haarlem to London at about this date.

Works

 * Sébastien Bourdon – A Brawl in a Guard-room (Dulwich Picture Gallery; approximate date)
 * Alonzo Cano – Ideal portrait of a Spanish King
 * William Dobson - Portrait of an Old and a Younger Man (John Taylor and John Denham)
 * Jan van Goyen – An Evening River Landscape with a Ferry
 * Cornelius Johnson – Major-General Sir William Waller
 * Rembrandt
 * The Artist's Wife, Saskia (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
 * Landscape with a Castle (Musée du Louvre)
 * Portrait of an Old Man (or The Old Rabbi; Woburn Abbey, England)
 * The Three Trees (etching)
 * Diego Velázquez – Self-portrait (Uffizi; approximate date)

Births

 * 7 December - Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian engraver especially of contemporary and antique structures in Rome (died 1678)
 * date unknown
 * Juan de Alfaro y Gamez, Spanish painter of the Baroque (died 1680)
 * Giovanni Battista Buonocore, Italian painter (died 1699)
 * Filippo Gherardi – Italian painter of frescoes (died 1704)
 * Ludovico Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period (died 1697)
 * Luigi Quaini, Italian painter of landscapes and architecture (died 1717)
 * Pandolfo Reschi, Polish-born Italian painter of battle scenes and landscapes (died 1699)
 * Orazio Marinali, Italian late-baroque sculptor, active mainly in Veneto (died 1720)
 * Gottfried Schalken, Dutch painter (died 1706)

Deaths

 * April - Abraham Bosschaert, Dutch painter (born 1612)
 * December 30 - Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (born 1566)
 * date unknown
 * Jean Chalette, French miniature and portrait painter (born 1581)
 * Belisario Corenzio, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1558)
 * Guillaume Dupré, French sculptor and medallist (born 1574)
 * Cornelis Jacobsz Delff, Dutch painter (born 1570)
 * probable
 * Cheng Jiasui, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Ming Dynasty (born 1565)
 * Ottavio Vannini, Italian painter of altarpieces and churches, active mainly in Florence (born 1585)