1645 in art
Events from the year 1645 in art.
[Image:Claude Lorrain 014.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Landscape with Apollo and Mercury by Claude.]
Events
*Works
Paintings
- Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Apollo and Mercury
- William Dobson - The Painter with Sir Charles Cottrell and another
- Rembrandt
- *Girl at a Window
- *Holy Family
- *Portrait of an Old Man
- *Self-portrait
- Salvator Rosa - Philosophy
- Diego Velázquez - ''Portrait of Sebastián de Morra''
Sculpture
Births
- January 11 - Matthias Rauchmiller, German sculptor active in Vienna
- August 30 - Giuseppe Avanzi, Italian painter of the Baroque period
- September - Romeyn de Hooghe, Dutch Baroque engraver and caricaturist
- September 14 - Jeremiah Dummer, American silversmith and portrait painter
- October 26 - Aert de Gelder, Dutch painter in the tradition of Rembrandt's late style
- December 6 – Maria de Dominici, Maltese sculptor and painter
- date unknown
- *Giovanni Antonio Fumiani, Italian painter of the Baroque period
- *François de Troy, French painter, father of Jean-François de Troy
- *Carlo Girolamo Bersotti, Italy painter of the Baroque period, specialized in painting still lifes
- *Sebastiano Taricco, Italian painter of the Baroque period
- *Jean-Baptiste Théodon, French sculptor
- probable
- *Giulio Giacinto Avellino, Italian painter
- *Urbano Romanelli, Italian painter in Rome and in churches at Velletri
- *Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter for the Habsburg court
Deaths
- April 11 - Ferraù Fenzoni, Italian painter active in Todi
- April 14 - Shi Kefa, Chinese government official and calligrapher
- May - Ambrosius Bosschaert II, Dutch flower painter
- July 12 - Luciano Borzone, Italian painter of the Baroque period with an antique style
- September - Julius Porcellis, Dutch marine artist
- December 12 - Giovanni Bernardino Azzolini or Mazzolini or Asoleni, Italian painter
- date unknown
- *Juan Alfonso Abril, Spanish painter active mainly in his native Valladolid
- *Christoffel van den Berghe, Dutch painter
- *Hans Gillisz. Bollongier, Dutch still life painter
- *Paolo Domenico Finoglia, Italian painter
- *Sebastiano Ghezzi, Italian painter and architect
- *Jacob van der Heyden, Flemish Baroque painter, sculptor and engraver
- *Francisco Varela, Spanish Baroque painter
- *Wen Zhenheng, Chinese Ming dynasty scholar, painter, and landscape garden designer