1611 in art

• The painter Agostino Tassi rapes his pupil Artemisia Gentileschi. ==Paintings==

– Jacobus Zaffius • Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger - Frances Howard, Countess of Hertford • Hendrik Goltzius - Mercury • Frans Hals - Jacobus Zaffius (his first known painting) • Peter Paul Rubens - The Elevation of the Cross (triptych, Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp), completed 1610–11) • Joachim Wtewael - Perseus and Andromeda ==Births==

• February 24 (bapt.) - William Dobson, English portrait painter (died 1646) • March 15 - Jan Fyt, Flemish animal painter and etcher (died 1661) • April 17 - Simone Pignoni, Italian painter of both licentious then later pious works (died 1698) • August 4 - Jan van den Hoecke, Antwerp painter and draftsman (died 1651) • date unknown • Nicolas Baudesson, French flower painter (died 1680) • Giovanni Battista Bolognini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1668) • Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy, painter (died 1665) • Pietro Testa, Italian High Baroque artist (died 1650) • Giovanni Francesco Cassana, Italian portrait painter (died 1691) • Baldassare Franceschini, late Italian Baroque painter of frescoes (died 1689) • Muyan, Chinese Chan monk and calligrapher (died 1684) • Diego Quispe Tito, Peruvian painter, leader of the Cuzco School of painting (died 1681) • Francesco Guarino, Italian painter active mainly in the mountainous area east of Naples called Irpinia (died 1651/1654) • Francesco Quaini, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1680) • probable • Antonio de Pereda, Spanish painter (died 1678) • Sebastiano Mazzoni, Italian who painted with unresolved dynamism and from awkward perspectives (died 1678) • Willem van de Velde the Elder, Dutch painter (died 1693) • Fra Bonaventura Bisi, Italian painter (died 1662) • (born 1611/1612) - Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet – Dutch painter (died 1675) ==Deaths==

• January - Anton Möller, German painter (born 1563) • August - Bartholomeus Spranger, Flemish Northern Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher (born 1546) • date unknown • Luigi Benfatto, Italian painter, nephew of Paolo Veronese (born 1551) • Sun Kehong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet (born 1533) • Camillo Mariani, Italian sculptor of the early Baroque (born 1565) • Barthélemy Prieur, French sculptor (born 1536) • Sampson Strong, Dutch-born portrait painter (born 1550) • Nicolas van Houy, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1550) • Marco Vecellio, Italian painter, nephew of Titian (born 1545) • probable • Ludovico Buti, Italian painter active mostly in Florence (born 1560) • Jan Soens, Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch (born 1547) ==References==