1675 in art explained

Events from the year 1675 in art.

Events

• Joseph Parrocel settles in Paris, where he will make his reputation as a painter.
• Sculptor Balthasar Permoser goes to Florence to work for Giovanni Battista Foggini.

Paintings

• Giovanni Domenico Cerrini – The Virgin Mary Triumphing over Heresy and Fall of the Rebel Angels (ceiling fresco, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome)
• Claude – The Landing of Aeneas
• Jan de Bray – The governors of the guild of St. Luke, Haarlem, 1675 (the painters' guild)
• Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts
  • Quodlibet
  • Trompe-l'œil with violin, painter's implements and self-portrait
• Jan Siberechts – A View of Longleat
• John Michael Wright – Triple portrait of the actor John Lacy in character

Births

• February 7 - Hugh Howard, Irish portrait-painter and collector of works of art (died 1737)
• April 29 – Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Italian decorative and mural painter from Venice (died 1741)
• June 23 – Louis de Silvestre, French painter (died 1760)
• October 7 - Rosalba Carriera, Venetian Rococo painter especially of portrait miniatures (died 1757)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Ange, Italian painter (died 1757)
  • Aureliano Milani, Italian painter and teacher in Bologna (died 1749)
  • Giuseppe Zola, Italian painter of landscapes with small figures (died 1744)
• probable
  • Charles Jervas, Irish portrait painter, translator, and art collector (died 1739)
  • James Thornhill, English history painter (died 1734)

Deaths

• January – Jacob van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (born 1644)
• February 9
  • Gerrit Dou (or Gerard Dow), Dutch painter especially of genre paintings (born 1613)
  • Ambrosius Brueghel, Flemish painter (born 1617)
• April 25 – Claude Lefebvre, French painter and engraver (born 1633)
• May 27 – Gaspard Dughet, French painter (born 1613)
• May 30 - José Antolínez, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (born 1635)
• August 15 – Pietro Ricchi, Italian painter of the altarpiece for a church in Lucca (born 1606)
• October – Hendrick Cornelisz. van Vliet, Dutch painter especially of church interiors (born 1611/1612)
• November – Allaert van Everdingen, Dutch painter and printmaker in etching and mezzotint (born 1621)
• November 14 (or 1680) – Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter of altarpieces, later director of the academy established by the Procaccini (died 1605)
• December 13 - Francesco Vaccaro, Italian painter of landscapes and engraver (born 1636)
• December 15 – Johannes Vermeer, Dutch painter (born 1632)
• date unknown
  • Carlo Biffi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1605)
  • Francesco Boschi, Italian painter, active mainly in Florence (born 1619)
  • Filippo Brizzi, Italian painter (born 1603)
  • Giovanni Battista Caccioli, Italian figure painter in quadratura (born 1623)
  • Antonio Vela Cobo, Spanish Baroque painter, sculptor and gilder (born 1629)
  • Vincenzo Dandini, Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Florence (born 1607)
  • Hans Ulrich Franck, German historical painter and etcher (born 1603)
  • Andrea di Leone, Italian painter of battle scenes (born 1596)
  • Jacob Levecq, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1634)
  • Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Dutch painter of the Flemish School (born 1596)
  • Lucas Vorsterman, Dutch Baroque engraver (born 1595)
• probable
  • Pedro de Campolargo, Flemish-born Spanish painter and engraver (born 1605)
  • Domenico Gargiulo, Italian painter of landscapes (born 1609/1610)
  • Pieter Neeffs II, Flemish Baroque painter who specialized in architectural interiors of churches (born 1620)
  • Jacob Willemszoon de Wet, Dutch painter (born 1610)