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)