1638 in art
This is a list of events that occurred in the year 1638 in art.
Events
- Anthony van Dyck is granted denizenship by Charles I of England and marries Mary, daughter of Lord Ruthven; his assistant Adriaen Hanneman returns to his native Hague to become the leading portraitist there.
- Francisco Zurbarán begins work on the series of paintings in the Santa María de Guadalupe
Works
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Bust of Thomas Baker
- Frans Hals – Claes Duyst van Voorhout
- Hubert Le Sueur – Equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross
- Nicolas Poussin – Et in Arcadia ego
- Rembrandt
- *Landscape with the Good Samaritan
- *Stormy Landscape
- Peter Paul Rubens
- *The Massacre of the Innocents
- *The Judgement of Paris
- Justus Sustermans – Portrait of Galileo Galilei
- Anthony van Dyck – some dates approximate
- *Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
- *George Digby
- *Thomas Killigrew
- *Thomas Killigrew and Lord Crofts
- *Lord John Stuart and his brother Lord Bernard Stuart
- *''Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria''
Births
- January 8 - Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter
- May 12 - Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, Spanish painter
- June 6 - Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch artist
- July 10 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter
- August 22 - Georg Christoph Eimmart, German draughtsman and engraver
- September 20 - Antonio Gherardi, painter, sculptor and architect
- October 31 – Meindert Hobbema, Dutch landscape painter
- date unknown
- *Antonio Franchi, Italian painter active mainly in Florence and Lucca
- *Luigi Garzi, Italian painter of the Baroque period
- *Crisóstomo Martinez, Valencian painter and engraver known for his anatomical atlas
- *Mo'en Mosavver, Persian miniaturist during the Safavid period
- *Jan Karel Donatus van Beecq, Dutch painter
Deaths
- January - Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish genre painter
- March 6 - Paulus Moreelse, Dutch painter, mainly of portraits
- March 10 - Cornelis van der Geest, Flemish merchant and art collector
- April 14 - Willem Jacobsz Delff, Dutch painter
- August 1 - Joachim Wtewael, Dutch painter and engraver
- August 18 - Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo, Italian painter active mainly in Genoa
- October - Gillis d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter in a Flemish style
- November 11 - Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter and draughtsman, leading Mannerist artist
- December 23 - Barbara Longhi, Italian painter
- date unknown
- *Pietro Francesco Alberti, Italian painter and engraver
- *Baldassare Aloisi, Italian portrait painter and engraver
- *Vincenzo Carducci, Italian painter
- *Santo Peranda, historical painter of Venice
- *Giovanni Giacomo Semenza, Italian painter
- *Magdalena van de Passe, engraver and important member of the Van de Passe family of artists
- *Jacob van Swanenburgh, Dutch history painter and teacher
- probable
- *Odoardo Fialetti, Italian painter and printmaker
- *Hercules Seghers, Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age