1640 in art

Events

Paintings

Births

• Evert Collier - Dutch painter known for vanitas still-life and trompe l'oeil paintings (d. 1708)
• Abraham Mignon - Dutch painter born at Frankfurt (d. 1679)
• Gérard Audran - French engraver of the Audran family (d. 1703)
• Filippo Abbiati - Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1715)
• Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Genoa (d. 1721)
• Giovanni Ventura Borghesi - Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome (d. 1708)
• Marco Liberi - Italian painter of mythologic and historic cabinet paintings (d. 1687)
• Jose Risueño - Spanish painter helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery (d. 1721)
• Charles de La Fosse - French painter (d. 1716)
• Jean Bérain the Elder - Draughtsman and designer, painter and engraver of ornament (d. 1711)
• Giovanni Battista Falda - Italian engraver especially of contemporary and antique structures in Rome (d. 1678)
• Antoine Coysevox - French sculptor emigrated from Spain (d. 1720)
• (b. 1640/1641): Gerard de Lairesse - Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist (d. 1711)

Deaths

• February 4 (bur.) - Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, Dutch painter (b. 1566), father of reverse-named painter Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom (1591-1661).
• May 30 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
• Agostino Ciampelli - Italian fresco painter (b. 1578)
• Jacopo Chimenti - Italian late-mannerist painter (b. 1551)
• Giuseppe Cesari - Italian painter (b. 1568)
• Pellegrino Piola - Italian painter (b. 1617)
• Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli - Italian woman painter of the Baroque period (b. unknown)
• Giovanni Antonio Lelli - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1591)
• Ercole de Maria - Italian painter awarded knighthood by Urban VIII (b. unknown)
• Mario Minniti - Italian painter , who was also the model for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit (b. 1577)
• Alfonso Rivarola - Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in his native Ferrara (b. 1607)
• Giovanni Battista Ruggieri - Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. unknown)
• Pietro Tacca - Italian sculptor and follower of Giambologna (b. 1557)