1639 in art

Events from the year 1639 in art.

Events

• Rembrandt acquires a house in Jodenbreestraat, Amsterdam, now the Rembrandthuis museum.

Paintings

• Claude Lorrain
• Seaport at Sunset, sometimes referred to as View of a Seaport
• Village Fête
• Pietro da Cortona - Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power
• Artemisia Gentileschi - Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
• Guido Reni - The Rape of Europa
• Jusepe de Ribera
• Jacob’s Dream
• Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, an example of Mannerism and especially the influence of Caravaggio on a contemporary of Francisco de Zurbarán in Spain.
• Peter Paul Rubens - The Three Graces
• Diego Velázquez
• The Jester Calabacillas
• The Lady with a Fan
• Zhang Yan - Plum Blossoms in Snow

Births

• May 8 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli (known as Il Baciccio), Italian painter of High Baroque (died 1709)
• August 6 – Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Danish sculptor and architect (died 1699)
• date unknown
• Hendrik Abbé, Flemish engraver, painter, and architect (died unknown)
• Claude Audran the Younger, French painter (died 1684)
• Ignatius Croon, Flemish Baroque painter (died 1667)
• Louis de Chastillon, French painter in enamel and miniature, and engraver (died 1734)
• Dirck Ferreris, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1693)
• Abraham Myra, Finnish painter (died 1684)
• Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait and genre works painter (died 1684)
• Bernardo Racchetti, Italian painter of imaginary vedute (died 1702)
• Cristoforo Savolini, Italian painter of altarpieces (died 1677)
• Gian Domenico Valentini, Italian painter of still lifes (died 1715)

Deaths

• January 12 - Reinhold Timm, Danish painter and teacher (born unknown)
• February
• Orazio Gentileschi, Italian Baroque Caravaggisti painter (born 1563)
• Roelant Savery, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1576)
• May 22 - Tiberio Tinelli, Italian painter of portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice (born 1586)
• July 22 - Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1571)
• date unknown
• Bernardino Capitelli, Italian painter and etcher (born 1589)
• Chen Jiru, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty (born 1558)
• William Peake, English painter and printseller (born 1580)
• Marcello Provenzale, Italian painter and mosaicist (born 1575)
• Shōkadō Shōjō, Japanese Edo period Buddhist monk, painter, calligrapher and master of the tea ceremony (born 1584)
• probable Baldassare d'Anna – Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period (born 1560)

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