1670 in art

Events

• An inventory of the art collection of Principe Lorenzo Onofrio Colonna lists works by Pietro Paolo Bonzi and many others.
• Gerard Reynst publishes Signorum Veterum Icones, a series of prints by Gerard de Lairesse based on the Italian statuary in Reynst's Amsterdam collection.

Paintings

• Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde – The Old Exchange of Amsterdam
• Jan de Bray – David Playing the Harp
• Isaac Fuller –
• Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts – Trompe-l'œil: The Reverse of a Framed Painting
• Jacob Ochtervelt – Musical Company in an Interior
• Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruisdael – The windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede
• Jan Vermeer – ''The Lacemaker''

Births

• January 26 – Jacob van Schuppen, Austrian painter
• April 23 – Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, English historian, travel writer and artist
• August 24 – Louis Galloche, French painter
• date unknown
• *Louis Audran, French engraver
• *François Boitard, French painter
• *Grigory Musikiysky, Russian painter
• *Arcangelo Resani, Italian painter of animals and hunted game
• *John Verelst, English portrait painter

Deaths

• January 18 – Andrea Vaccaro, Italian Caravaggisti painter of a tenebrist style
• May 21 – Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Bolognese painter
• June – Hendrik Martenszoon Sorgh, Dutch painter of the baroque era
• June 15 – Louis Lerambert, French sculptor from family of artists
• November 3 – Salomon van Ruysdael, Dutch Golden Age landscape painter
• November 5 - Viviano Codazzi, Italian architectural painter
• November 26 – Jacob van Loo, Dutch painter, founder of the Van Loo family of painters
• December – Bartholomeus van der Helst, Dutch portrait painter
• December 24 – Jan Mytens, Dutch painter
• date unknown
• *Angelica Veronica Airola, Italian painter
• *Isaac Briot, French engraver and draughtsman
• *Cheng Zhengkui, Chinese landscape painter and poet
• *Giovanna Garzoni, Italian woman painter of still-lifes of fruits, vegetables, and flowers
• *Jean Michelin, French Protestant painter
• *Juan de Pareja, Spanish painter from Seville
• probable
• *Luca Forte, Italian painter of still-lifes in Naples
• *Michele Pace del Campidoglio, Italian painter of fruit and flowers