1639 in art
Events from the year 1639 in art.
Events
- Rembrandt acquires a house in Jodenbreestraat, Amsterdam, now the Rembrandthuis museum.
Paintings
Zhang Yan.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Zhang Yan - Plum Blossoms in Snow]- Claude Lorrain
- * Seaport at Sunset, sometimes referred to as View of a Seaport
- * Village Fête
- Pietro da Cortona - Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power
- Artemisia Gentileschi - Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
- Guido Reni - The Rape of Europa
- Jusepe de Ribera
- * Jacob’s Dream
- * Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, an example of Mannerism and especially the influence of Caravaggio on a contemporary of Francisco de Zurbarán in Spain.
- Peter Paul Rubens - The Three Graces
- Diego Velázquez
- * The Jester Calabacillas
- * The Lady with a Fan
- Zhang Yan - ''Plum Blossoms in Snow''
Births
- May 8 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli, Italian painter of High Baroque
- August 6 – Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Danish sculptor and architect
- date unknown
- *Hendrik Abbé, Flemish engraver, painter, and architect
- *Claude Audran the Younger, French painter
- *Ignatius Croon, Flemish Baroque painter
- *Louis de Chastillon, French painter in enamel and miniature, and engraver
- *Dirck Ferreris, Dutch Golden Age painter
- *Abraham Myra, Finnish painter
- *Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait and genre works painter
- *Bernardo Racchetti, Italian painter of imaginary vedute
- *Cristoforo Savolini, Italian painter of altarpieces
- *Gian Domenico Valentini, Italian painter of still lifes
Deaths
- January 12 - Reinhold Timm, Danish painter and teacher
- February
- *Orazio Gentileschi, Italian Baroque Caravaggisti painter
- *Roelant Savery, Dutch Golden Age painter
- May 22 - Tiberio Tinelli, Italian painter of portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice
- July 22 - Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti, Italian Mannerist painter
- date unknown
- *Bernardino Capitelli, Italian painter and etcher
- *Chen Jiru, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty
- *William Peake, English painter and printseller
- *Marcello Provenzale, Italian painter and mosaicist
- *Shōkadō Shōjō, Japanese Edo period Buddhist monk, painter, calligrapher and master of the tea ceremony
- probable Baldassare d'Anna – Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period