1659 in art

Births

• January 21 – Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes (died 1722)
• March 4 – Pierre Lepautre, French sculptor (died 1744)
• April 11 – Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors (died 1719)
• July 8 – Justus van Huysum, Dutch Golden Age flower painter (died 1716)
• July 18 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter of Catalan origin (died 1743)
• August 1 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter in the Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting (died 1734)
• September 29 – Michael Dahl, Swedish portrait painter (died 1743)
• December 12 – Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (died 1739)
• date unknown
• Faustino Bocchi, Italian painter, active in Brescia, who specialized in bizarre paintings of dwarfs (died 1742)
• Niccolò Cassana, Italian painter born in Venice (died 1714)
• Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian painter, active in Rome painting still-life paintings of bowls of fruit and flowers (died 1730)
• Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian engraver (died 1730)
• Bernard Lens II, English engraver, pioneer of mezzotint technique, and publisher (died 1725)
• Krzysztof Lubieniecki, Polish Baroque painter and engraver (died 1729)
• Giovanni Battista Marmi. Italian painter (died 1686)
• John Baptist Medina, Flemish-Spanish portrait painter and illustrator of Paradise Lost (died 1710)
• Thomas van der Wilt, Dutch painter (died 1733)
• Catharina Ykens, Flemish Baroque painter (died unknown)

Deaths

• January 1 – Giovanni Martinelli, Italian painter of allegorical frescoes (died 1600/1604)
• February – Willem Drost, Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker (born 1633)
• October – Valerio Castello, Italian painter (born 1624)
• date unknown
• Pedro de Obregón, Spanish painter and printmaker (born 1597)
• Jacques Fouquier, Flemish landscape painter (born 1591)
• Filippo Gagliardi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome (date of birth unknown)
• Jean Lemaire, French painter (born 1598)
• Giovanni Pietro Possenti, Italian painter of battle scenes (born 1618)
• Frans Wouters, Flemish Baroque painter (born 1612)

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