1630 in art

Events

• The gardens of Sentō Imperial Palace, Kyoto, are laid out by Kobori Masakazu.

Paintings

• Reza Abbasi - Two Lovers
• Pieter Claesz - Vanitas Still Life
• Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Merchants
• Georges de La Tour - The Fortune Teller
• Judith Leyster
• * A Game of Tric Trac
• * The Happy Couple
• * Self-portrait
• Rembrandt - paintings using chiaroscuro
• * Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem
• * The Raising of Lazarus
• Anthony van Dyck - The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph
• Diego Velázquez - Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan
• Francisco de Zurbarán - ''Death of Saint Bonaventura''

Births

• January 27 - Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch artist
• April 16 - Lambert van Haven, Danish painter, architect and master builder
• August 20 - Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch painter, specializing in richly detailed still-lifes
• September 27 - Michael Willmann, German painter
• December 28 - Ludolf Bakhuysen, Dutch painter
• date unknown
• *Hendrick Bogaert, Dutch painter
• *Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor
• *Geronimo de Bobadilla, Spanish painter
• *Josefa de Óbidos, Spanish-born, Portuguese painter
• *Pietro Lucatelli, Italian painter active in Rome
• *Stefano Erardi, Maltese painter
• *Jean Baptiste Mathey, French architect and painter
• *Francisco Meneses Osorio, Spanish painter
• *Filippo Parodi, sculptor
• *Jan Vermeer van Utrecht, Dutch Golden Age painter
• probable
• *Pietro Aquila, Italian painter and printmaker
• *Matias de Arteaga, Spanish painter and engraver
• *Orazio Bruni, Italian engraver
• *Catherine Duchemin, French flower and fruit painter
• *Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts, Flemish painter of still life and trompe-l'œil
• *Juan Valdelmira de Leon, Spanish of primarily still-life paintings of fruit and flowers
• *1630s: Bogdan Saltanov, Armenian-born Russian painter
• *1630/1631: Henry Gibbs, English oil painter

Deaths

• July 13 - Matteo Zaccolini, Italian painter, priest and author
• July 19 - Daniele Crespi, Italian painter and colorist
• August 5 - Antonio Tempesta, Florentine painter and engraver, worked in Rome, influenced by counter-Mannerism
• November - Esaias van de Velde, Dutch landscape painter
• date unknown
• *Marco Antonio Bassetti, Italian painter
• *Ottavio Leoni, Italian painter and printmaker
• *Alessandro Maganza, Italian Mannerist painter
• *Pasquale Ottini, Italian painter active mainly in Verona
• *Jerónimo Rodriguez de Espinosa, Spanish painter
• *victims of the Italian plague of 1629–1631
• **Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods
• **Fede Galizia, Italian still life painter
• probable
• *Giulio Cesare Angeli, Italian painter
• *Jacob Hoefnagel, Flemish naturalist and artist
• *Đorđe Mitrofanović, Serbian portraitist, icon painter and muralist.