1672 in art

Events from the year 1672 in art.

Events

 * March - Mural painter Antonio Verrio arrives in Britain, where he commences working on the decor of some of the country's great houses.
 * The Rampjaar, in which the Netherlands is invaded, results in a depression in the art market.

Paintings

 * Murillo – The Wedding Feast at Cana
 * Kanō Tanyū – 春景図 (Spring Landscape)
 * Willem van de Velde the Younger – Ships on a Stormy Sea
 * Jan Vermeer
 * The Guitar Player
 * Lady Standing at a Virginal

Publications

 * Gian Pietro Bellori - Le vite de’ pittori, scultori et architetti moderni (The lives of the modern painters, sculptors, and architects)

Births

 * October 1 - René Frémin, French sculptor (died 1744)
 * October 18 – Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli, Italian painter (died 1740)
 * date unknown
 * Alberto Carlieri, Italian painter (died after 1720)
 * Francesco Costa, Italian painter of ornaments and quadratura (died 1740)
 * Pietro Nelli, Italian portrait painter (died 1730)
 * Giovanni Battista Revello, Italian painter of landscape elements for other historical painters (died 1732)
 * probable – Giuseppe Laudati, Italian painter (died after 1718)

Deaths

 * January – Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch animal and landscape painter (born 1636)
 * April 1 – Francisco de Burgos Mantilla, Spanish painter (born 1612)
 * May 5 – Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (born 1609)
 * October 8 – Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1622)
 * November 4 – Lucas van Uden, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in landscapes (born 1595)
 * November 16 – Esaias Boursse, Dutch painter of genre works (born 1631)
 * December 30 – Hendrick Bloemaert, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1601)
 * date unknown
 * Ambrosio Martínez Bustos, Spanish Baroque painter active in Granada (born 1614)
 * Ginevra Cantofoli, Italian painter (born 1618)
 * Salvi Castellucci, Italian painter active in Arezzo (born 1608)
 * Viviano Codazzi, Italian painter of landscapes or vedute (born 1606/1611)
 * Obaku Dokuryu, Japanese calligrapher and painter (born 1596)
 * Zhou Lianggong, Chinese bureaucrat, poet, essayist and art historian, patron of many important Chinese painters (born 1612)
 * Lorenzo Tinti, Italian painter and engraver (born 1626)
 * Jean Varin, French sculptor and engraver (born 1604)
 * Abraham Willemsens, Flemish painter of history and genre paintings (born 1605/1610)