1674 in art

Events from the year 1674 in art.



Events

 * The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture holds the first Salon in Paris.

Paintings

 * Mary Beale – Portrait of Jan Baptist van Helmont (approximate date)
 * Claude Lorrain – Seaport
 * Gerard de Lairesse – Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple
 * Antonio Verrio – The Sea Triumph of Charles II

Births

 * January 12 – Alexis Simon Belle French portrait painter (died 1734)
 * January 28 - Jean Ranc, French portrait painter (died 1735)
 * June 28 – Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome (died 1755)
 * date unknown
 * Diego Francesco Carlone, Italian sculptor (died 1750)
 * Giovanni Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (died 1754)
 * Giuseppe Palmieri, Italian painter (died 1740)
 * Giovanni Battista Parodi, Italian fresco painter (died 1730)
 * Marc van Duvenede, Flemish painter (died 1730)
 * Giampietro Zanotti, Italian painter and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (died 1765)
 * probable – Onofrio Avellino, Italian painter (died 1741)

Deaths

 * February – Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter (born 1596)
 * May - Balthazard Marsy, French sculptor (born 1628)
 * June 4 – Jan Lievens, Dutch painter and visual artist (born 1607)
 * July 30 – Karel Škréta, Czech Baroque painter (born 1610)
 * August 12 – Philippe de Champaigne, French Baroque portrait painter (born 1602)
 * September 29 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1621)
 * November 4 - Kanō Tanyū, Japanese painter (born 1602)
 * date unknown
 * Charles Audran, French engraver (born 1594)
 * Pieter Boel, Flemish painter (born 1626)
 * Pedro de Camprobín, Spanish painter of animals, fruit, and flowers (born 1605)
 * Pieter de Jode II, engraver (born 1601)
 * Chöying Dorje, 10th Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and a painter and sculptor (born 1604)
 * Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (born c. 1584)
 * Nicolas Jarry, French calligrapher (born 1620)
 * Vincenzo Manenti, Italian painter who worked on the cathedral at Tivoli (born 1600)
 * Tomás Yepes, Spanish painter of primarily bodegóns (born 1595)
 * probable
 * Kun Can, Chinese painter from Hunan who spent most of his life in Nanjing (born 1612)
 * Bartolommeo Torregiani, Italian painter of landscapes and portraits (date of birth unknown)
 * Pieter Xavery, Flemish sculptor (born 1647)