1644 in art

Events from the year 1644 in art.

Events

• Nicolas Poussin begins to paint the second series of Seven Sacraments.

Works

Paintings

• Hans Gillisz. Bollongier – Blumenstück ("Piece of Flower")
• Claude Lorrain
• Odysseus Returns Chryseis to Her Father
• Pastoral Landscape with the Arch of Titus
• View of Tivoli at Sunset
• William Dobson – John, 1st Baron Byron (approximate date)
• Sebastian Stoskopff – Glasses in a Basket
• David Teniers the Younger – The Smokers
• Diego Velázquez – Coronation of the Virgin

Sculpture

• Alessandro Algardi – Tomb of Pope Leo XI

Births

• April - Abraham Storck, Dutch landscape and maritime painter of the Baroque era (died 1708)
• date unknown
• Étienne Allegrain, French topographical painter (died 1736)
• Francisco Antolínez, Spanish historical and landscape painter (died 1700)
• Domenico Bettini, Italian painter of still lifes (d. unknown)
• Jacob van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (died 1675)
• Yang Jin, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1728)
• Simon Pietersz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1710)
• date unknown - Pietro Erardi, Maltese chaplain and painter (died 1727)
• probable
• Marziale Carpinoni, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1722)
• Elizabeth Haselwood English silversmith (died 1715)

Deaths

• January 20 – Stefano Amadei, Italian still-life painter (born 1580)
• February – Johannes van der Beeck, Dutch painter (born 1589)
• May 11 - Domingos da Cunha, Portuguese painter (born 1598)
• June 14 - Jean Toutin, French enamel worker, one of the first artists to make enamel portrait miniatures (born 1578)
• July 16 – Giovanni Biliverti, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1585)
• August 2 – Bernardo Strozzi, Italian painter (born 1581)
• November 27 – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter and writer on painting (born 1564)
• date unknown
• Giovanni Maria Bottala, Italian painter (born 1613)
• Giovanni Battista Calandra, Italian mosaic artist (born 1568)
• George Jamesone, Scottish portrait painter (born 1587)
• Ni Yuanlu, Chinese calligrapher and painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1593)
• Claudio Ridolfi, Italian painter (born 1560)
• Bernard van Linge, Dutch glass and enamel painter (born 1598)
• Cui Zizhong, Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (born unknown)

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