1618 in art

Events from the year 1618 in art.

Events

January 1 (baptized) – Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (died 1682)
June 28 – Jean Le Pautre, French designer and engraver (died 1682)
September 11 – Francesco Grue, Italian potter and painter (died 1673)
September 14 – Peter Lely, Dutch portrait painter (died 1680)
date unknown
- Carlo Cane, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1688)
- Gioseffo Danedi, Italian painter (died 1689)
- Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi, Italian painter and etcher (died 1677)
- Cornelis Holsteyn, Dutch painter of historical allegories, portraits, and interior decorations (died 1658)
- Hishikawa Moronobu, Japanese painter (died 1694)
- Gong Xian, Chinese painter (died 1689)
- Giovanni Pietro Possenti, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1659)
- Pieter Hermansz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age genre art painter (died 1678)
probable
- (born 1608/1618) Ginevra Cantofoli, Italian painter (died 1672)
- (born 1618/1621) – Jacopo Chiavistelli, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1698)

February 21 – Vittorio Baldini, Italian engraver
April 8 – Antonio Marziale Carracci, Italian painter (born 1583)
May 24 – Cornelis IJsbrantsz Cussens, Dutch draughtsman and glass painter (born 1580)
June 29 – Adriaen Collaert, Flemish engraver (born 1560)
date unknown
- Luis de Carvajal, Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (born 1531)
- Ambrosius Francken I, Flemish painter (born 1544)^[1]
- Giovanni Guerra, Italian draughtsman and painter (born 1544)
- Paolo Camillo Landriani, Italian painter (born c. 1560)
- Pietro Malombra, Italian painter (born 1556)
- Giulio Mazzoni, Italian painter and stuccoist (born 1525)
- Fillide Melandroni, Italian courtesan, model for Caravaggio (born 1581)
- Camillo Rizzi (or Ricci), Italian painter (born 1580)^[2]
- Ercole Setti, Italian engraver (born 1530)
- Unkoku Togan, Japanese painter (born 1547)
- Maffeo Verona, Italian painter (born 1576)