1640 in art

Events

• Nicolas Poussin completes the first series of Seven Sacraments.
• Abraham van Linge begins painting the windows for the chapel of University College, Oxford.
• Opening of the iconography studio at the Kremlin Armoury.

Paintings

• Govert Flinck - A Young Archer
• Giovanna Garzoni - Still Life with Bowl of Citrons
• Jacob Jordaens
• *The King Drinks
• *Prometheus Bound
• Rembrandt
• *Harmen Doomer
• *Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet
• *Self-portrait
• Guido Reni - Saint Joseph and the Christ Child
• Diego Velázquez - ''Mars Resting''

Births

• June 21 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch flower painter born at Frankfurt
• August 2 - Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family
• September 11 - Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist
• September 29 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor
• date unknown
• *Filippo Abbiati, Italian painter
• *Jean François Baudesson, French painter of flowers and fruit
• *Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter, active in Genoa
• *Jacques d'Agar, French portrait painter
• *Henry Gyles, English glass painter
• *Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, Ottoman-Turkish musician, composer, calligrapher, singer and poet
• *Isaac Paling, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Jose Risueño, Spanish painter who helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery
• probable
• *Giovanni Ventura Borghesi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome
• *Marco Liberi, Italian painter of mythologic and historic cabinet paintings

Deaths

• January - Johann Wilhelm Baur, German engraver, etcher and miniature painter
• January 8 - Alfonso Rivarola, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Ferrara
• February 4 - Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, Dutch painter, father of Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom
• May 30 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter
• June - Abraham van der Doort, Dutch-born artist and curator
• July 3 - Giuseppe Cesari, Italian painter
• August 3 - Giovanni Antonio Lelli, Italian painter of the Baroque period
• September 30 - Jacopo da Empoli, Italian late-mannerist painter
• October 26 - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor and follower of Giambologna
• November 22 - Mario Minniti, Italian painter, who was also the model for Caravaggio's painting Boy with a Basket of Fruit
• November 25 - Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter
• December 22 - Jean de Beaugrand, French lineographer and mathematician
• date unknown
• *Vicente Guirri, Spanish painter
• *Giovanni Battista Ruggieri, Italian painter
• probable
• *Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli, Italian woman painter
• *Ercole de Maria, Italian painter awarded knighthood by Urban VIII