1644 in art

Events

• Nicolas Poussin begins to paint the second series of ''Seven Sacraments.''

Works

Paintings

• Hans Gillisz. Bollongier – Blumenstück
• Claude Lorrain
• * Odysseus Returns Chryseis to Her Father
• * Pastoral Landscape with the Arch of Titus
• * View of Tivoli at Sunset
• William Dobson – John, 1st Baron Byron
• Sebastian Stoskopff – Glasses in a Basket
• David Teniers the Younger –
• Diego Velázquez – ''Coronation of the Virgin''

Sculpture

• Alessandro Algardi – Tomb of Pope Leo XI

Births

• April - Abraham Storck, Dutch landscape and maritime painter of the Baroque era
• date unknown
• *Étienne Allegrain, French topographical painter
• *Francisco Antolínez, Spanish historical and landscape painter
• *Domenico Bettini, Italian painter of still lifes
• *Jacob van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter
• *Yang Jin, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty
• *Simon Pietersz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age painter
• date unknown - Pietro Erardi, Maltese chaplain and painter
• probable
• *Marziale Carpinoni, Italian painter of the Baroque period
• *Elizabeth Haselwood English silversmith

Deaths

• January 20 – Stefano Amadei, Italian still-life painter
• February – Johannes van der Beeck, Dutch painter
• May 11 - Domingos da Cunha, Portuguese painter
• June 14 - Jean Toutin, French enamel worker, one of the first artists to make enamel portrait miniatures
• July 16 – Giovanni Biliverti, Italian Mannerist painter
• August 2 – Bernardo Strozzi, Italian painter
• November 27 – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter and writer on painting
• date unknown
• *Giovanni Maria Bottala, Italian painter
• *Giovanni Battista Calandra, Italian mosaic artist
• *George Jamesone, Scottish portrait painter
• *Ni Yuanlu, Chinese calligrapher and painter during the Ming Dynasty
• *Claudio Ridolfi, Italian painter
• *Bernard van Linge, Dutch glass and enamel painter
• *Cui Zizhong, Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty