1659 in art
Events from the year 1659 in art.
Events
- Frescoes at the Quirinal Palace in Rome are completed by Pietro da Cortona and his team of artists.
Paintings
Image:Johannes Vermeer - De Soldaat en het Lachende Meisje - Google Art Project.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Jan Vermeer, Officer and a Laughing Girl- Peter Lely – A Boy as a Shepherd
- Rembrandt
- *hendrickje as flora
- *Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
- *Moses with Law
- *Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar
- Salvator Rosa – Allegory of Fortune
- Adriaen van Ostade – The Fish Market
- Diego Velázquez
- * Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress
- * Portrait of Prince Philip Prospero
- Jan Vermeer – ''Officer and a Laughing Girl''
Births
- January 21 – Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes
- March 4 – Pierre Lepautre, French sculptor
- April 11 – Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors
- July 8 – Justus van Huysum, Dutch Golden Age flower painter
- July 18 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter of Catalan origin
- August 1 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter in the Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting
- September 29 – Michael Dahl, Swedish portrait painter
- December 12 – Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter
- date unknown
- *Faustino Bocchi, Italian painter, active in Brescia, who specialized in bizarre paintings of dwarfs
- *Niccolò Cassana, Italian painter born in Venice
- *Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian painter, active in Rome painting still-life paintings of bowls of fruit and flowers
- *Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian engraver
- *Bernard Lens II, English engraver, pioneer of mezzotint technique, and publisher
- *Krzysztof Lubieniecki, Polish Baroque painter and engraver
- *Giovanni Battista Marmi. Italian painter
- *John Baptist Medina, Flemish-Spanish portrait painter and illustrator of Paradise Lost
- *Thomas van der Wilt, Dutch painter
- *Catharina Ykens, Flemish Baroque painter
Deaths
- January 1 – Giovanni Martinelli, Italian painter of allegorical frescoes
- February – Willem Drost, Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker
- October – Valerio Castello, Italian painter
- date unknown
- *Pedro de Obregón, Spanish painter and printmaker
- *Jacques Fouquier, Flemish landscape painter
- *Filippo Gagliardi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome
- *Jean Lemaire, French painter
- *Giovanni Pietro Possenti, Italian painter of battle scenes
- *Frans Wouters, Flemish Baroque painter