1609 in art

Events from the year 1609 in art.

Events

 * January 9 – Letters patent issued relating to accommodation and workshops for artists in the Louvre Palace mezzanine in Paris.
 * Hans Krumpper becomes chief sculptor to the Bavarian court under Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.
 * Mesrop of Khizan paints a Gospel which ends up in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Paintings

 * Caravaggio
 * The Raising of Lazarus
 * Adoration of the Shepherds
 * Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence
 * Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Royal Palace of Madrid)
 * Adam Elsheimer – The Flight into Egypt
 * El Greco – Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple (San Ginés, Madrid)
 * Peter Paul Rubens – some dates approximate
 * Adoration of the Magi (original version for Antwerp City Hall)
 * The Head of Saint John the Baptist Presented to Salome (c.)
 * Honeysuckle Bower
 * Judith Beheading Holofernes
 * Portrait of a young woman with a rosary

Births

 * January 20 – Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter of portraitures, altarpieces and religious works (died 1679)
 * March 1 (baptised) – Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger, Dutch painter (died 1645)
 * March 16 – Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1660)
 * March 23 (baptised) – Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian painter (died 1664)
 * May 6 (baptised) – Antonie Waterloo, Dutch painter, publisher and draughtsman
 * July 28 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter of Haarlem (died 1660)
 * August 25 – Giovanni Battista Salvi or Sassoferrato, Italian painter (died 1685)
 * August 30 – Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (died 1668)
 * December 11 – Alexander Cooper, English Baroque miniature painter (died 1660)
 * date unknown
 * Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Dutch painter (died 1651)
 * Giovanni Angelo Canini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1666)
 * Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, Italian painter from the Bolognese School (died 1681)
 * Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (died 1672)
 * Bernardino Gagliardi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1660)
 * Salomon Koninck, Dutch painter of genre scenes and portraits and engraver (died 1656)
 * Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, Italian painter working in Lombardy (died 1661 or 1662)
 * Tobias Pock, Austrian painter (died 1683)
 * Herman Saftleven, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (died 1685)
 * Giulio Cesare Venenti, Italian painter of landscapes and engraver (died 1697)
 * probable
 * François Collignon, French engraver, print-seller and publisher (died 1687)
 * Domenico Gargiulo, Italian painter of landscapes (died 1675)

Deaths

 * July 15 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (born 1560)
 * July 20 – Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter and architect (born 1542/1543)
 * October – Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss painter, draftsman and architect (born 1564)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Battista Armenini, Italian art historian and critic (born 1530)
 * Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (born 1555)
 * Giusto Utens, Flemish painter of a series of Medicean villas (born unknown)
 * Tiburzio Vergelli, Italian sculptor and founder (born 1551)