1650 in art

Events from the year 1650 in art.

Events

 * Giovanni Angelo Canini is received into the Accademia di San Luca of Rome
 * Pieter van Bredael enters the Guild of Saint Luke in Antwerp.
 * Govert Dircksz Camphuysen becomes a poorter and moves from Jordaan to Kalverstraat

Paintings

 * Bartolomeo Biscaino, Adoration of the Magi
 * Claude Lorrain
 * Coast Scene with the landing of Aeneas
 * View of La Crescenza
 * Gerard Dou – The Dutch Housewife
 * Aniello Falcone – The Anchorite
 * David Ryckaert – Temptation of St. Anthony
 * Aernout van der Neer – Moonlit Landscape with Bridge (1648–50)
 * Gerard van Honthorst – Portrait of Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange
 * Diego Velázquez – approximate completion date
 * Portrait of Innocent X
 * Portrait of Juan de Pareja
 * Helmich van Thweenhuysen II - Portrait of a Clergyman

Births

 * January 11 - Diana Glauber, Dutch-German painter (died 1721)
 * April 16 - Jean Joly, French sculptor (died 1740)
 * April 20 - Felice Boselli, Italian painter, active mainly in Piacenza (died 1732)
 * October - Jan Mortel, Dutch painter (died 1719)
 * date unknown
 * Rinaldo Botti, Italian painter born in Florence (died unknown)
 * Jean-Baptiste Boyer d’Éguilles, French engraver, painter, and collector (died 1709)
 * Margherita Caffi, Italian woman painter of Still lifes of flowers and fruit (died 1710)
 * Bernardino Ciceri, Italian painter (died unknown)
 * Jean Cornu, French sculptor (died 1710/1715)
 * Francisco de Artiga, Spanish landscape and historical painter (died 1711)
 * Alessandro Mari, Italian painter of capricci and symbolical representations (died 1707)
 * Carlo Moscatiello, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1739)
 * Giovanni Francesco Venturini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1710)
 * Huang Ding, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Qing Dynasty (died 1730)
 * probable
 * Valerio Baldassari, Italian painter (died 1695)
 * Domenico Maria Bonavera, Italian engraver (died unknown)
 * Giovanni Canti, Italian] painter of the Baroque (died 1716)
 * Jan Kryštof Liška, Czech Baroque painter (died 1712)
 * Garret Morphey, Irish painter of portraits, genre works and landscapes (died 1716)
 * John Slezer, Dutch- or German-born military engineer and artist (died 1717)
 * Jan van der Vaardt, Dutch painter of portraits, landscapes and trompe-l'œil (died 1727)

Deaths

 * January 17 – Tommaso Dolabella, Venetian painter (born 1570)
 * January 18 – Matteo Rosselli, Italian painter (born 1578)
 * June 19 – Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (born 1593)
 * July 20 – Iwasa Matabei, Japanese painter (born 1578)
 * December – Jacob Pynas, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1583)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Battista Barbiani, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1593)
 * Giovanni Battista Barca, Italian painter (born 1594)
 * Giovanni Campino, Italian painter from Camerino (born 1590)
 * Martin Droeshout, English engraver (born 1601)
 * Nicodemo Ferrucci, Italian painter (born 1574)
 * Guy François, French painter (born c.1578)
 * Baltazar Kuncz, Polish sculptor and woodcarver (born 1580)
 * Jean Nicolle, French painter (born 1610)
 * Antonio Randa, Italian painter active in Ferrara (born unknown)
 * Bartholomeus Strobel, Silesian Baroque painter (born 1591)
 * Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist (born 1611)
 * Gerrit van Bloclant, Dutch Renaissance painter (born 1578)
 * Alessandro Vitali, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and Baroque periods (born 1580)