1660 in art

Events from the year 1660 in art.

Events

 * November – The Dutch Gift: a collection including 28 mostly Italian Renaissance paintings and a dozen classical sculptures is presented to the newly restored King Charles II of England by the States-General of the Netherlands.
 * To circumvent restrictions placed by the Amsterdam painters' guild on bankrupts trading as painters, Rembrandt's son Titus van Rijn and mistress Hendrickje Stoffels set up a business as art dealers, nominally employing Rembrandt.

Paintings

 * Aelbert Cuyp – approximate date
 * The Maas at Dordrecht
 * River Landscape with Horseman and Peasants
 * Allaert van Everdingen – Nordic Landscape with a Castle on a Hill (approximate date)
 * Rembrandt
 * Ahasuerus and Haman at the Feast of Esther
 * David and Saul
 * Self Portrait
 * Titus the Artist's Son
 * Jan Steen – An interior with the artist eating oysters and Skittle Players outside an Inn
 * Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten – A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House (approximate date)
 * Velázquez – Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Pink Dress (completed (or perhaps painted) after the death of Velázquez by his pupil Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo)
 * Jan Vermeer
 * Girl Interrupted at Her Music
 * The Girl with the Wine Glass
 * The Glass of Wine
 * View of Delft

Births



 * January 27 - Felice Cignani, Italian painter from Bologna (died 1724), son of Carlo Cignani
 * March - Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer, German sculptor and stuccoist (died 1718)
 * March 28 - Arnold Houbraken, Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht (died 1719)
 * April 24 - Cornelis Dusart, Dutch genre  painter, draftsman, and printmaker (died 1704)
 * By May - Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter (died 1685)
 * June 17 - Jan van Mieris, Dutch painter (died 1690)
 * date unknown
 * Antonio Amorosi, Italian painter, active in Ascoli Piceno and Rome (died 1738)
 * Francesco Bruni, Italian engraver (died unknown)
 * John Closterman, portrait painter (died 1711)
 * John Faber the Elder, Dutch portrait engraver active in London (died 1721)
 * Cesare Fantetti, Italian designer and etcher (died unknown)
 * Christopher Elias Heiss, German painter and printmaker (died 1731)
 * Pellegrino Antonio Orlandi, art historian (died 1727)
 * Gao Qipei, Chinese painter of landscapes and figures (died 1734)
 * Tobias Querfurt, German painter, draughtsman, and engraver (died 1734)
 * Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Florentine painter (died 1731)
 * Chen Shu, Chinese painter (died 1736)
 * Jerzy Siemiginowski-Eleuter, Polish painter and engraver (died 1711)
 * probable
 * Andrés Pérez, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1727)
 * Johann Gustav Stockenberg, Swedish sculptor and stonemason (died 1710)
 * Peter Strudel, Austrian sculptor and painter (died 1714)
 * Jan Joost van Cossiau, Flemish landscape painter and engraver (died 1732)
 * Adriaen van Salm, Dutch draftsman and painter (died 1720)

Deaths

 * January 1 - Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter (born 1597)
 * January 16 - Peter Wtewael, Dutch painter, son of Joachim Wtewael (born 1596)
 * February 2 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter of the Dutch Golden Age (born 1615)
 * February 10 - Judith Leyster, Dutch painter of Haarlem (born 1609)
 * March 5 - Felice Ficherelli, Italian painter active in Tuscany (born 1605)
 * March 9 - Hieronymus Joachims, Austrian painter (born 1619)
 * April 6 - Michelangelo Cerquozzi, Italian painter of small canvases of genre scenes (born 1602)
 * July 2 - Francesco Maffei, Italian painter characterized by provincial stylistic quirks (born 1605)
 * July 27 - Giovanni Battista Vanni, Italian painter of frescoes and engraver (born 1599)
 * August 2 - Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter of quadratura (born 1609)
 * August 6 - Diego Velázquez, Spanish painter (born 1599)
 * September 22 - Pieter de Ring, Dutch painter famous for his opulent, flashy still lifes (born 1615)
 * October 4 - Francesco Albani, Italian painter (born 1578)
 * October 20 - Claude Deruet, French painter (born 1588)
 * November 30 - Caterina Ginnasi, Italian painter of altarpieces for the church of Santa Lucia alle Botteghe Oscure (born 1590)
 * date unknown
 * Esteban March, Spanish painter (born 1590)
 * Filippo d'Angeli, Italian painter of battle scenes with small figures (born 1600)
 * Giacomo Cavedone, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (born 1577)
 * Alexander Cooper, English Baroque miniature painter (born 1609)
 * Giovanni Battista Discepoli, Italian painter who was crippled (born 1590)
 * Bernardino Gagliardi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1609)
 * Richard Tassel, French painter (born 1582)
 * probable
 * Giuseppe Caletti, Italian painter and engraver (born 1600)
 * Antonio Rocca, Italian painter in Rome who became a monk (date of birth unknown)
 * Juan Valdelmira de Leon, Spanish of primarily still-life paintings of fruit and flowers (born 1630)
 * Jan Baptist Weenix, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1621)