1621 in art
# 1621 in art

Events from the year 1621 in art.

## Events

* Dutch painter Johannes van der Beeck is jailed for failing to pay alimony to his former wife Neeltgen van Camp.

## Paintings

* Giovanni Francesco Barbieri – The Suicide of Cleopatra
* Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger – Susanna Temple
* Guercino
   * Aurora (fresco, Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, Rome)
   * Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (approximate date)
* Giovanni Francesco Guerrieri – Virgin and Child
* Jacob Jordaens – The Family of the Artist (1621-2)
* Dirck van Baburen – Youth Playing a Small Whistle
* Domenico Zampieri – The Assumption of Mary Magdalene into Heaven

## Births

* May 25 – David Beck, Dutch portrait painter (died 1656)
* June
   * Allaert van Everdingen, Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint (died 1675)
   * Isaac van Ostade, Dutch genre and landscape painter (died 1649)
* August 19 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, painter of the Dutch Golden Age (died 1674)
* date unknown
   * Giacinto Brandi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome and Naples (died 1691)
   * Fabrizio Chiari, painter and engraver (died 1695)
   * Jacques Courtois, French painter (died 1676)
   * Giuseppe Diamantini, Italian painter and printmaker of the Baroque period (died 1705)
   * Albrecht Kauw, Swiss still-life painter, cartographer and a painter of vedute (died 1681)
   * Matthew Snelling, English miniature painter (died 1678)
   * Robert Streater, English landscape, history, still-life and portrait artist, architectural painter, and etcher (died 1679)
   * Hendrick van Balen the Younger, Flemish painter (died 1663)
   * Jan Baptist Weenix, painter of the Dutch Golden Age (died 1660)
* probable – Giulio Cesare Milani, Italian painter (died 1678)

## Deaths

* April 1 – Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (born 1577)
* May 15 – Hendrick de Keyser, Dutch sculptor and architect (born 1565)
* date unknown
   * Cornelis Boel, Flemish draughtsman and engraver (born 1576)
   * Louis de Caullery, French painter (born 1555)
   * Ambrosius Bosschaert, Dutch painter (born 1573)
   * Marzio di Colantonio, Italian painter of still lifes and landscapes, and fresco decorations (born 1560)
   * Dirk Pietersz, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1558)
   * Terenzio Terenzi, Italian painter (born 1575)
   * Giovanni Vasanzio, Dutch-born architect, garden designer and engraver (born 1550)
