1609 in art

Events

• January 9 – Letters patent issued relating to accommodation and workshops for artists in the Louvre Palace mezzanine in Paris.
• Hans Krumpper becomes chief sculptor to the Bavarian court under Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.
• Mesrop of Khizan paints a Gospel which ends up in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Paintings

• Caravaggio
• *The Raising of Lazarus
• *Adoration of the Shepherds
• *Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence
• *Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
• Adam Elsheimer – The Flight into Egypt
• El Greco – Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple
• Peter Paul Rubens – some dates approximate
• *Adoration of the Magi
• *The Head of Saint John the Baptist Presented to Salome
• *Honeysuckle Bower
• *Judith Beheading Holofernes
• *''Portrait of a young woman with a rosary''

Births

• January 20 – Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter of portraitures, altarpieces and religious works
• March 1 – Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger, Dutch painter
• March 16 – Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter of quadratura
• March 23 – Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian painter
• May 6 – Antonie Waterloo, Dutch painter, publisher and draughtsman
• July 28 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter of Haarlem
• August 25 – Giovanni Battista Salvi or Sassoferrato, Italian painter
• August 30 – Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor
• December 11 – Alexander Cooper, English Baroque miniature painter
• date unknown
• *Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Dutch painter
• *Giovanni Angelo Canini, Italian painter and engraver
• *Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, Italian painter from the Bolognese School
• *Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter
• *Bernardino Gagliardi, Italian painter of the Baroque period
• *Salomon Koninck, Dutch painter of genre scenes and portraits and engraver
• *Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, Italian painter working in Lombardy
• *Tobias Pock, Austrian painter
• *Herman Saftleven, Dutch painter of the Baroque period
• *Giulio Cesare Venenti, Italian painter of landscapes and engraver
• probable
• *François Collignon, French engraver, print-seller and publisher
• *Domenico Gargiulo, Italian painter of landscapes

Deaths

• July 15 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter
• July 20 – Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter and architect
• October – Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss painter, draftsman and architect
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Battista Armenini, Italian art historian and critic
• *Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family
• *Giusto Utens, Flemish painter of a series of Medicean villas
• *Tiburzio Vergelli, Italian sculptor and founder