1651 in art

Events from the year 1651 in art.

Events

 * Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" completed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Paintings

 * David Bailly – Self-portrait with Vanitas symbols (approximate date)
 * Guercino - The Libyan Sibyl
 * Jacob Jordaens – The Triumph of Frederik Hendrik
 * Nicolas Poussin
 * The Finding of Moses
 * The Holy Family
 * Salvator Rosa – Democritus amid the Tombs
 * David Teniers the Younger – Erzherzog Leopold Wilhelm in seiner Galerie in Brüssel ("Archduke Leopold William in his Gallery at Brussels")
 * Diego Velázquez – The Rokeby Venus (c.1647-1651)

Births

 * August 13 - Balthasar Permoser, Austrian sculptor (died 1732)
 * date unknown
 * Niccolò Bambini, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (died 1736)
 * Teresa Maria Languasco, Italian painter and monk (died 1698)
 * Willem van Ingen, Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy (died 1708)
 * François-Alexandre Verdier, French painter, draftsman and engraver (died 1730)

Deaths

 * January - Jacob Franquart, Flemish painter, court architect and copper plate engraver (born 1582)
 * January 27 - Abraham Bloemaert, painter (born 1566)
 * May 9 - Cornelis de Vos, Flemish painter (born 1584)
 * August 16 - Henricus Hondius II, Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher (born 1597)
 * August 27 – Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Dutch painter (born 1609)
 * September 12 - Felix Castello, Spanish painter (born 1595)
 * November 22 - Giovanni Battista Soria, Italian architect (born 1581)
 * December 6 - Anna Visscher, Dutch artist, poet, and translator (born 1584)
 * date unknown
 * Friedrich Brentel, German printmaker in engraving and etching, and miniature painter (born 1580)
 * Giovanni Domenico Cappellino Italian painter, active mainly in his native Genoa (born 1580)
 * Dirck Cornelis de Hooch, Dutch portrait painter (born 1613)
 * Panfilo Nuvolone, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1581)
 * Kanō Sansetsu, Japanese painter (born 1589)
 * John Taylor, portrait painter (born 1585)
 * Jan van den Hoecke, Antwerp painter and draftsman (born 1611)
 * Floris van Dyck, Dutch still life painter (born 1575)
 * Joris van Schooten, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1587)
 * probable - Francesco Guarino, Italian painter active mainly in Irpinia (born 1611)