1640 In Art

Events from the year 1640 in art.

Events

* Nicolas Poussin completes the first series of ''Seven Sacraments''.
* Abraham van Linge begins painting the windows for the chapel of University College, Oxford.
* Opening of the iconography studio at the Kremlin Armoury.

Paintings

*Govert Flinck - ''A Young Archer'' (c.1639-40)
*Giovanna Garzoni - ''Still Life with Bowl of Citrons''
*Jacob Jordaens (approximate dates)
**'' The King Drinks''
**'' Prometheus Bound''
*Rembrandt
**'' Harmen Doomer''
**''Portrait of an Elderly Woman in a White Bonnet''
**''Self-portrait''
*Guido Reni - '' Saint Joseph and the Christ Child''
*Diego Velázquez - ''Mars Resting'' (Prado Museum)

Births

*June 21 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch flower painter born at Frankfurt (died 1679)
*August 2 - Gérard Audran, French engraver of the Audran family (died 1703)
* September 11 (or 1641) - Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist (died 1711)
* September 29 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor who emigrated from Spain (died 1720)
*''date unknown''
**Filippo Abbiati, Italian painter (died 1715)
** Jean François Baudesson, French painter of flowers and fruit (died 1713)
**Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter, active in Genoa (died 1721)
**Jacques d'Agar, French portrait painter (died 1716)
**Henry Gyles, English glass painter (died 1709)
**Buhurizade Mustafa Itri, Ottoman-Turkish musician, composer, calligrapher, singer and poet (died 1712)
**Isaac Paling, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1728)
** Jose Risueño, Spanish painter who helped decorate the cupola of the church in the Carthusian monastery (died 1721)
*''probable''
**Giovanni Ventura Borghesi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome (died 1708)
**Marco Liberi, Italian painter of mythologic and historic cabinet paintings (died 1687)

Deaths

*January - Johann Wilhelm Baur, German engraver, etcher and miniature painter (born 1607)
*January 8 - Alfonso Rivarola, Italian painter, active mainly in his native Ferrara (born 1607)
*February 4 (bur.) - Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom), father of Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom
*May 30 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (born 1577)
*June - Abraham van der Doort, Dutch-born artist and curator (born c. 1575/1580?) (suicide)
* July 3 - Giuseppe Cesari, Italian painter (born 1568)
*August 3 - Giovanni Antonio Lelli, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1591)
*September 30 - Jacopo da Empoli, Italian late- mannerist painter (born 1551)
* October 26 - Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor and follower of Giambologna (born 1557)
*November 22 - Mario Minniti, Italian painter, who was also the model for Caravaggio's painting ''Boy with a Basket of Fruit'' (born 1577)
*November 25 - Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter (born 1617)
* December 22 - Jean de Beaugrand, French lineographer and mathematician (born 1584)
*''date unknown''
** Vicente Guirri, Spanish painter (date of birth unknown)
**Giovanni Battista Ruggieri, Italian painter (date of birth unknown)
*''probable''
**Antonia Bertucci-Pinelli, Italian woman painter (date of birth unknown)
**Ercole de Maria, Italian painter awarded knighthood by Urban VIII (b. ''unknown'')

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