title: 1651 in art
text: # 1651 in art
  
  Events from the year 1651 in art.
  
  ## Events
  
  * Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" completed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  
  ## Paintings
  
  * David Bailly – Self-portrait with Vanitas symbols (approximate date)
  * Guercino - The Libyan Sibyl
  * Jacob Jordaens – The Triumph of Frederik Hendrik
  * Nicolas Poussin
     * The Finding of Moses
     * The Holy Family
  * Salvator Rosa – Democritus amid the Tombs
  * David Teniers the Younger – Erzherzog Leopold Wilhelm in seiner Galerie in Brüssel ("Archduke Leopold William in his Gallery at Brussels")
  * Diego Velázquez – The Rokeby Venus (c.1647-1651)
  
  ## Births
  
  * August 13 - Balthasar Permoser, Austrian sculptor (died 1732)
  * date unknown
     * Niccolò Bambini, Italian painter of the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (died 1736)
     * Teresa Maria Languasco, Italian painter and monk (died 1698)
     * Willem van Ingen, Dutch Golden Age painter active in Italy (died 1708)
     * François-Alexandre Verdier, French painter, draftsman and engraver (died 1730)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January - Jacob Franquart, Flemish painter, court architect and copper plate engraver (born 1582)
  * January 27 - Abraham Bloemaert, painter (born 1566)
  * May 9 - Cornelis de Vos, Flemish painter (born 1584)
  * August 16 - Henricus Hondius II, Dutch engraver, cartographer and publisher (born 1597)
  * August 27 – Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Dutch painter (born 1609)
  * September 12 - Felix Castello, Spanish painter (born 1595)
  * November 22 - Giovanni Battista Soria, Italian architect (born 1581)
  * December 6 - Anna Visscher, Dutch artist, poet, and translator (born 1584)
  * date unknown
     * Friedrich Brentel, German printmaker in engraving and etching, and miniature painter (born 1580)
     * Giovanni Domenico Cappellino Italian painter, active mainly in his native Genoa (born 1580)
     * Dirck Cornelis de Hooch, Dutch portrait painter (born 1613)
     * Panfilo Nuvolone, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1581)
     * Kanō Sansetsu, Japanese painter (born 1589)
     * John Taylor, portrait painter (born 1585)
     * Jan van den Hoecke, Antwerp painter and draftsman (born 1611)
     * Floris van Dyck, Dutch still life painter (born 1575)
     * Joris van Schooten, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1587)
  * probable - Francesco Guarino, Italian painter active mainly in Irpinia (born 1611)
  