1643 in art
# 1643 in art

Events from the year 1643 in art.

## Events

* (unknown)

## Works

* Sébastien Bourdon – A Brawl in a Guard-room (Dulwich Picture Gallery; approximate date)
* Alonzo Cano – Ideal portrait of a Spanish King
* Jan van Goyen – An Evening River Landscape with a Ferry
* Cornelius Johnson – Major-General Sir William Waller
* Rembrandt
   * The Artist's Wife, Saskia (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
   * Landscape with a Castle (Musée du Louvre)
   * Portrait of an Old Man (or The Old Rabbi; Woburn Abbey, England)
   * The Three Trees (etching)
* Diego Velázquez – Self-portrait (Uffizi; approximate date)

## Births

* 7 December - Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian engraver especially of contemporary and antique structures in Rome (died 1678)
* date unknown
   * Juan de Alfaro y Gamez, Spanish painter of the Baroque (died 1680)
   * Giovanni Battista Buonocore, Italian painter (died 1699)
   * Filippo Gherardi – Italian painter of frescoes (died 1704)
   * Ludovico Gimignani, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome, during the Baroque period (died 1697)
   * Luigi Quaini, Italian painter of landscapes and architecture (died 1717)
   * Pandolfo Reschi, Polish-born Italian painter of battle scenes and landscapes (died 1699)
   * Orazio Marinali, Italian late-baroque sculptor, active mainly in Veneto (died 1720)
   * Gottfried Schalken, Dutch painter (died 1706)

## Deaths

* April - Abraham Bosschaert, Dutch painter (born 1612)
* December 30 - Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (born 1566)
* date unknown
   * Jean Chalette, French miniature and portrait painter (born 1581)
   * Belisario Corenzio, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1558)
   * Guillaume Dupré, French sculptor and medallist (born 1574)
   * Cornelis Jacobsz Delff, Dutch painter (born 1570)
* probable
   * Cheng Jiasui, Chinese landscape painter and poet during the Ming Dynasty (born 1565)
   * Ottavio Vannini, Italian painter of altarpieces and churches, active mainly in Florence (born 1585)
