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

David Bailly – Self-portrait with Vanitas symbols^[1]
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)

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)

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)