1669 in art

Events

• Following the fall of Crete to the Ottomans, the Heptanese School, also known as the Ionian Islands' School, succeeds the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting.

Paintings

• Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - Return of the Prodigal Son
• Pierre Prieur – Portrait miniatures of King Charles II of England and Lady Castlemaine
• Jan Vermeer – ''The Geographer''

Births

• September 21 - Pietro Ercole Fava, Italian nobleman and art patron
• December 16 - Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter
• date unknown
• *Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter
• *Giovanni Antonio Capello, Italian painter, active in Brescia
• *Alessio Erardi, Maltese painter
• *Antonio Filocamo, Italian painter at various churches and oratories in Messina
• *Bartolomeo Letterini, Venetian painter
• *Angelo Trevisani, Italian painter active mainly in Venice
• *Pierre Le Ber, painter from Montreal, especially of portraits
• *Ma Yuanyu, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty

Deaths

• January 27 – Caspar de Crayer, Flemish painter
• May
• *Joris van der Haagen, Dutch painter
• *Pieter Post, Dutch architect, painter and printmaker
• May 16 – Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berettini, prolific artist and architect of High Baroque
• July 12 – Theodoor van Thulden, Dutch artist from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant
• July 17 - Herman van Aldewereld, Dutch portrait painter
• August 10 – Paulus Bor, Dutch painter
• October 4 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher
• October 18 – Abraham Willaerts, Dutch Baroque painter
• October 19 – Domenico Fiasella, Italian painter of primarily frescoes
• December 24 - Antonio Giorgetti, Italian sculptor
• date unknown
• *François Anguier, French sculptor
• *Pier Martire Armani, Italian painter
• *Ludolph Büsinck, German wood-engraver
• *Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Genoa
• *Albert Flamen, Dutch engraver
• *1669/1677: Bartholomeus Assteyn, Dutch painter