1672 in art
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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.[1]
Paintings

- Murillo â The Wedding Feast at Cana
- KanÅ TanyÅ« â æ¥æ¯å³ (Spring Landscape)
- Willem van de Velde the Younger â Ships on a Stormy Sea
- Jan Vermeer
Publications
- Gian Pietro Bellori - Le vite deâ 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 â 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 â Giuseppe Laudati, Italian painter (died after 1718)
Deaths
- January â Adriaen van de Velde, Dutch animal and landscape painter (born 1636)
- April 1 â Francisco de Burgos Mantilla, Spanish painter (born 1612)
- May 5 â Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (born 1609)
- October 8 â Abraham Lambertsz van den Tempel, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1622)
- November 4 â Lucas van Uden, Flemish Baroque painter specializing in landscapes (born 1595)
- November 16 â Esaias Boursse, Dutch painter of genre works (born 1631)
- December 30 â Hendrick Bloemaert, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1601)
- date unknown
- Ambrosio MartÃnez Bustos, Spanish Baroque painter active in Granada (born 1614)
- Ginevra Cantofoli, Italian painter (born 1608/1618)
- 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)