1669 in art

Events from the year 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

Image:DebrayCleopatra.jpg|thumb|Jan de Bray and his family pose as The Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra. By the date of this second version of 1669, most of the models had died of the plague some years before.

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