1646 in art
Events from the year 1646 in art.
Events
*Paintings
- Georges de La Tour - The Smoker
- Claude Lorrain
- *The Judgement of Paris
- *'
- Carlo Dolci - Saint Andrew Praying Before his Crucifixion
- Gerrit Dou - Girl Chopping Onions
- Guercino
- *Annunciation
- *The Circumcision
- *Saul Attacking David
- Murillo - The Angels' Kitchen
- Jacob van Ruisdael - Wooded Dunes
- Kano Sansetsu - '
- Karel Škréta - The Crucifixion
- Philips Wouwerman - ''''
Births
- January 6 - Jan Van Cleef, Flemish painter
- February 10 - Hans Adam Weissenkircher, Austrian Baroque court painter
- April 20 - Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta
- August 8 - Godfrey Kneller, portrait painter in England
- date unknown
- *Andrea Belvedere, Italian painter
- *Lorenzo Bergonzoni, Italian painter
- *Juan Correa, Mexican painter of primarily religious themes
- *Pietro Dandini, Italian painter active in Florence
- *Benoît Farjat, French engraver
- *José García Hidalgo, Spanish Baroque painter
- *Francesco Monti, Italian painter of battle scenes
- *Pietro Paolo Raggi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of Bacchanal and landscape subjects
- probable - Jean-Baptiste Corneille, French painter, etcher, and engraver
Deaths
- April 10 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor
- August 19 - Francesco Furini, Italian Baroque painter from Florence
- October 28 - William Dobson, English portrait painter
- date unknown
- *Alessandro Albini, Italian painter of the early Baroque period
- *Antonio Bisquert, Spanish painter of the Baroque period
- *Huang Daozhou, Chinese calligrapher, scholar and official of the Ming Dynasty
- *Daniel Dumonstier, French portraitist in crayon
- *Isaack Gilsemans, Dutch merchant and artist
- *Ludovico Lana, Italian painter, mainly active in Modena
- *Niccolo Laniere, Italian painter and engraver
- probable - Giovanni Stefano Marucelli, Italian painter and architect active mainly in Tuscany