1630 in art

Events from the year 1630 in art.

Events

 * The gardens of Sentō Imperial Palace, Kyoto, are laid out by Kobori Masakazu.

Paintings

 * Reza Abbasi - Two Lovers
 * Pieter Claesz - Vanitas Still Life
 * Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Merchants (The Shipwreck) (also etching)
 * Georges de La Tour - The Fortune Teller
 * Judith Leyster
 * A Game of Tric Trac
 * The Happy Couple
 * Self-portrait
 * Rembrandt - paintings using chiaroscuro
 * Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem
 * The Raising of Lazarus
 * Anthony van Dyck - The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph
 * Diego Velázquez - Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan
 * Francisco de Zurbarán - Death of Saint Bonaventura

Births

 * January 27 - Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch artist (died 1698)
 * April 16 - Lambert van Haven, Danish painter, architect and master builder (died 1695)
 * August 20 - Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch painter, specializing in richly detailed still-lifes (died 1693)
 * September 27 - Michael Willmann, German painter (died 1706)
 * December 28 - Ludolf Bakhuysen, Dutch painter (died 1708)
 * date unknown
 * Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor (died 1700)
 * Geronimo de Bobadilla, Spanish painter (died 1709)
 * Josefa de Óbidos, Spanish-born, Portuguese painter (died 1684)
 * Pietro Lucatelli, Italian painter active in Rome (died after 1690)
 * Stefano Erardi, Maltese painter (died 1716)
 * Jean Baptiste Mathey, French architect and painter (died 1696)
 * Francisco Meneses Osorio, Spanish painter (died 1705)
 * Filippo Parodi, sculptor (died 1702)
 * Jan Vermeer van Utrecht, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1696)
 * probable
 * Pietro Aquila, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1692)
 * Matias de Arteaga, Spanish painter and engraver (died 1704)
 * Orazio Bruni, Italian engraver (died unknown)
 * Catherine Duchemin, French flower and fruit painter (died 1698)
 * Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts, Flemish painter of still life and trompe-l'œil (died 1683)
 * Juan Valdelmira de Leon, Spanish of primarily still-life paintings of fruit and flowers (died 1660)
 * 1630s: Bogdan Saltanov, Armenian-born Russian painter (died 1703)
 * 1630/1631: Henry Gibbs, English oil painter (died 1713)

Deaths

 * July 13 - Matteo Zaccolini, Italian painter, priest and author (born 1574)
 * July 19 - Daniele Crespi, Italian painter and colorist (born 1590)
 * August 5 - Antonio Tempesta, Florentine painter and engraver, worked in Rome, influenced by counter-Mannerism (born 1555)
 * November - Esaias van de Velde, Dutch landscape painter (born 1587)
 * date unknown
 * Marco Antonio Bassetti, Italian painter (born 1588)
 * Ottavio Leoni, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1578)
 * Alessandro Maganza, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1556)
 * Pasquale Ottini, Italian painter active mainly in Verona (born 1570)
 * Jerónimo Rodriguez de Espinosa, Spanish painter (born 1562)
 * victims of the Italian plague of 1629–1631
 * Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods (born 1590)
 * Fede Galizia, Italian still life painter (born 1578)
 * probable
 * Giulio Cesare Angeli, Italian painter (born 1570)
 * Jacob Hoefnagel, Flemish naturalist and artist (born 1573)
 * Đorđe Mitrofanović, Serbian portraitist, icon painter and muralist (born 1550).