Events from the year 1616 in art.

Events

• Jacob Jordaens marries the daughter of his teacher, Adam van Noort.
• Peter Paul Rubens begins work on classical tapestries for Genoese merchant Franco Cattaneo following signing of a contract in Antwerp with cloth dyers Jan Raes and Frans Sweerts.

Paintings

• Hendrik Goltzius - Lot and his Daughters
• Guercino - Moonlit Landscape
• Cornelis van Haarlem – Allegory of Vanity and Repentance
• Frans Hals - The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company
• Jacob Jordaens
  • Abduction of Europa (1615-16)
  • Adoration of the Shepherds (his earliest dated extant work)
  • The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt (approximate date)
• Isaac Oliver - Portrait miniature of John Donne
• Peter Paul Rubens
  • Erichthonius discovered by the daughters of Cecrops (approximate date)
  • The Hippopotamus and Crocodile Hunt
  • Tiger, Lion and Leopard Hunt
  • Portrait of a Young Girl
  • Romulus and Remus
• Sigismund of Seeon - Trithemius sui ipsius vindex sive Steganographiae (painted in Ingolstadt)
• Simon van de Passe - Engraving of Pocahontas (died 1617; later published in John Smith's Generall Historie of Virginia (1624))

Sculptures

• Gian Lorenzo Bernini
  • Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children
  • Bust of Giovanni Battista Santoni (approximate completion date)
• Pietro Bernini - Flora
• Pietro and Gian Lorenzo Bernini - Autumn (approximate date)
• Giambologna (completed by Pietro Tacca) - Equestrian statue of Philip III of Spain

Births

• February 2 - Sébastien Bourdon, French painter and engraver (died 1671)
• May 25 - Carlo Dolci, Italian painter of chiefly sacred subjects (died 1686)
• June 24 - Ferdinand Bol, Dutch artist, etcher, and draftsman (died 1680)
• September - Philips Angel, Dutch painter (died 1683)
• date unknown
  • Bernardo Cavallino, Italian painter of the Baroque period working in Naples (died 1656)
  • Pierfrancesco Cittadini, Italian painter of still life (died 1681)
  • Pietro del Po, Italian painter (died 1692)
  • Isaack Luttichuys, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (died 1673)
  • Jean Michelin, French Protestant painter (died 1670)
  • Luigi Pellegrini Scaramuccia, Italian painter and artist biographer of the Baroque period (died 1680)
  • Sokuhi Nyoitsu, Buddhist monk of the Obaku Zen sect, poet and calligrapher (died 1671)
• Henri Testelin, French court painter (died 1695)
• (born 1616/1617) Caesar van Everdingen – Dutch portrait painter (died 1678)

Deaths

• January - Orazio Borgianni, Italian painter and etcher of the Mannerist and early-baroque periods (born 1575)
• August 8 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch Mannerist painter (born 1548)
• date unknown
  • Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter of devotional, historical and maritime subjects during the Mannerist period (born c.1547)
  • Jacques Bellange, French artist and printmaker from Lorraine (born 1575)
  • Orazio Farinati, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1559)
  • Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala, Quechua noble man known for illustrating a chronicle of the native peoples of the Andes (born 1535)
  • Siyâvash, Iranian Georgian miniature illustrator (born 1536)