Events from the year 1643 in art.

Events

• Painter Peter Lely moves from Haarlem to London at about this date.

Works

• Sébastien Bourdon – A Brawl in a Guard-room ( Dulwich Picture Gallery; approximate date)
• Alonzo Cano – Ideal portrait of a Spanish King
• William Dobson - Portrait of an Old and a Younger Man ( John Taylor and John Denham) ^[1]
• 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) ^{[2] [3]}
  • Landscape with a Castle ( Musée du Louvre)
  • Portrait of an Old Man (or The Old Rabbi; Woburn Abbey, England) ^{[2] [3]}
  • 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)

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