1667 in art

• In 1667, the royally sanctioned French institution of art patronage, the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (a division of the Académie des beaux-arts), held its first semi-public art exhibit at the Salon Carré ==Paintings==

, The Jewish Bride • Ludolf Bakhuizen – The Return of the Warship Hollandia in the Landsdiep near Huisduinen on 3 November 1665 • Abraham van Beijeren – Banquet Still Life (with Mouse) • Ferdinand Bol – Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter • Rembrandt • The Jewish Bride (approximate date; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) • Portrait of an elderly man (Mauritshuis) • Johannes Vermeer -Mistress and Maid (c.) ==Births==

• January 12 - Jonathan Richardson, English portrait painter, writer on art and collector (died 1745) • February 4 - Alessandro Magnasco, Italian Rococo painter of genre or landscape scenes (died 1749) • May 2 - Jacob Christoph Le Blon, German painter and engraver who invented the system of three- and four-colour printing (died 1741) • July 21 - Cristoforo Munari, Italian painter of the late-Baroque specializing in still life paintings (died 1720) • September 9 - Felice Torelli, Italian painter of altarpieces (died 1748) • November 5 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German landscape painter (died 1719) • December 17 - Jan-Baptist Bosschaert, Flemish painter (died 1746) • date unknown • Federiko Benković, Croatian late baroque painter (died 1753) • Francis Bird, English sculptor (died 1731) • Michael Feuchtmayer, German member of the Feuchtmayer family of Baroque artists (d. unknown) • Jan Kupecký, Czech and Slovak portrait painter (died 1740) • Antoine Rivalz, official painter to the town of Toulouse (died 1735) • Giovanni Tuccari, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1743) • Cornelis Verelst, Dutch flower painter (died 1734) • Ned Ward, English writer and publican (died 1731) ==Deaths==

• January - Jacob Duck, Dutch painter (born 1600) • February 10 - Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Spanish Baroque portrait and landscape painter (born 1612) • June - Thomas de Keyser, Dutch painter and architect (born 1596) • May 22 - Pope Alexander VII, Papal patron of the arts commissioned architectural and sculptural works by Gianlorenzo Bernini (born 1599) • July 4 - Christiaen van Couwenbergh, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1604) • August 3 – Francesco Borromini, byname of Francesco Castelli, Swiss-Italian Baroque architect in Rome (born 1599) • August 12 - Cornelius van Poelenburgh, Dutch painter (born 1590) • September 3 - Alonso Cano, Spanish painter, architect and sculptor (born 1601) • October 24 (buried) - Gabriël Metsu, Dutch painter (born 1629) • December 4 - Michel Lasne, French engraver, draughtsman and collector (born 1590) • date unknown • Mario Balassi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1604) • Orfeo Boselli, Italian sculptor working in Rome (born 1597) • Francisco Caro, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1627) • Ignatius Croon, Flemish Baroque painter (born 1639) • Frans Francken III, Flemish painter (born 1607) • Jerónimo Jacinto de Espinosa, Spanish painter active in Valencia (born 1600) • Luigi Primo, Flemish painter of portraits and altarpieces (born 1705) ==References==