1641 in art

Events

• Claude Lorrain completes a series of twelve etchings of land- and seascapes.
• Gerard Dou and Diego Velázquez are painting.

Paintings

• Claude Lorrain – The Embarkation of St. Ursula
• Guercino
• *The Flagellation of Christ
• *The Suicide of Cato
• Willem Claesz. Heda – The Blackcurrant Pie
• Luis de Morales – Madonna della Purità
• Le Nain brothers – Venus at Vulcan's Forge
• Nicolas Poussin – Time Rescuing Truth from the Assaults of Discord and Envy
• Rembrandt
• *The Girl in a Picture Frame
• *The Scholar at the Lectern
• *The Concord of the State
• *Portrait of Agatha Bas
• *Portrait of Nicolaes van Bambeeck
• *Portrait of the Mennonite preacher Cornelius Claesz Anslo and his wife Aeltje Gerritsdr Schouten
• *Saskia as Flora
• *The Windmill
• Andrea Sacchi –
• Sebastian Stoskopff – Great Vanity
• Sir Anthony van Dyck – Self-portrait
• Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck – ''Girl in a Blue Dress''

Births

• May – Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Carniolan nobleman, scientist, writer, draughtsman, and polymath
• May 17 – Pierre Monier, French painter
• September 8 – Jacobus Storck, Dutch Golden Age painter
• September 11 – Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist
• September 22 – Titus van Rijn, son and model of Rembrandt
• date unknown
• *Johann Franz Ermels, German painter and engraver
• *Juan Conchillos Falco, Spanish painter
• *Thomas Heeremans, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Pieter Peutemans, Dutch Golden Age painter
• *Pasquale Rossi, Italian painter
• *Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella, French engraver
• *Tao Chi, Chinese landscape painter
• *Herman Verelst, Dutch Golden Age portrait and still life painter
• *Jan Pietersz Zomer, Dutch engraver, copyist, and art collector

Deaths

• January 11 – Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish poet and painter
• April 16 – Domenichino, Italian Baroque painter
• June 27 – Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch painter, born at Delft
• November – Andrés López Polanco, Spanish Baroque portrait painter
• December 9 – Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish Baroque painter who became the leading court painter in England
• date unknown
• *Juan Bautista de Espinosa, Spanish still life painter
• *Léonard Gaultier, French engraver
• *Lazzaro Tavarone, Genoese painter
• *Adam van Noort, Flemish painter and draughtsman
• *Artus Wolffort, Flemish painter
• probable – Ottavio Viviani, Italian painter of quadratura