1640 in art
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Events from the year 1640 in art.
Events
- Nicholas Poussin completes the first series of Seven Sacraments.
- Abraham van Linge begins painting the windows for the chapel of University College, Oxford.
- Opening of the iconography studio at the Kremlin Armoury.
Paintings
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Garzoni – Still Life with Bowl of Citrons
- Govert Flinck - A Young Archer (c.1639-40)
- Giovanna Garzoni - Still Life with Bowl of Citrons
- Jacob Jordaens (approximate dates)
- The King Drinks
- Prometheus Bound
- Rembrandt
- Harmen Doomer
- Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet
- Self-portrait
- Guido Reni - Saint Joseph and the Christ Child
- Diego Velázquez - Mars Resting (Prado Museum)
Births
- June 21 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch flower painter born at Frankfurt (died 1679)
- August 2 - Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family (died 1703)
- September 11 (or 1641) - Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist (died 1711)
- September 29 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor who emigrated from Spain (died 1720)
- date unknown
- Filippo Abbiati, Italian painter (died 1715)
- Jean François Baudesson, French painter of flowers and fruit (died 1713)
- Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter, active in Genoa (died 1721)
- Jacques d'Agar, French portrait painter (died 1716)
- Henry Gyles, English glass painter (died 1709)
- Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, Ottoman-Turkish musician, composer, calligrapher, singer and poet (died 1712)
- Isaac Paling, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1728)
- Jose Risueño, Spanish painter who helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery (died 1721)
- probable
- Giovanni Ventura Borghesi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome (died 1708)
- Marco Liberi, Italian painter of mythologic and historic cabinet paintings (died 1687)
- William van der Gouwen, Dutch engraver (died 1720)
Deaths
- January - Johann Wilhelm Baur, German engraver, etcher and miniature painter (born 1607)
- January 8 - Alfonso Rivarola, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Ferrara (born 1607)
- February 4 (bur.) - Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, Dutch painter (born 1566), father of Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom
- May 30 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (born 1577)
- June - Abraham van der Doort, Dutch-born artist and curator (born c. 1575/1580?) (suicide)
- July 3 - Giuseppe Cesari, Italian painter (born 1568)
- August 3 - Giovanni Antonio Lelli, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1591)
- September 30 - Jacopo da Empoli, Italian late-mannerist painter (born 1551)
- October 26 - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor and follower of Giambologna (born 1557)
- November 22 - Mario Minniti, Italian painter, who was also the model for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit (born 1577)
- November 25 - Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter (born 1617)
- December 22 - Jean de Beaugrand, French lineographer and mathematician (born 1584)
- date unknown
- Vicente Guirri, Spanish painter (date of birth unknown)
- Giovanni Battista Ruggieri, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
- probable
- Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli, Italian woman painter (date of birth unknown)
- Ercole de Maria, Italian painter awarded knighthood by Urban VIII (b. unknown)
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