1638 in art

This is a list of events that occurred in the year 1638 in art.

Events

 * Anthony van Dyck is granted denizenship by Charles I of England and marries Mary, daughter of Lord Ruthven; his assistant Adriaen Hanneman returns to his native Hague to become the leading portraitist there.
 * Francisco Zurbarán begins work on the series of paintings in the Santa María de Guadalupe

Works

 * Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Bust of Thomas Baker
 * Frans Hals – Claes Duyst van Voorhout
 * Hubert Le Sueur – Equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross (London)
 * Nicolas Poussin – Et in Arcadia ego (Les bergers d'Arcadie, Louvre)
 * Rembrandt
 * Landscape with the Good Samaritan
 * Stormy Landscape
 * Peter Paul Rubens
 * The Massacre of the Innocents (second version – approximate date)
 * The Judgement of Paris (second version – approximate date)
 * Justus Sustermans – Portrait of Galileo Galilei
 * Anthony van Dyck – some dates approximate
 * Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
 * George Digby
 * Thomas Killigrew
 * Thomas Killigrew and Lord Crofts
 * Lord John Stuart and his brother Lord Bernard Stuart
 * Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria

Births

 * January 8 - Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (died 1665)
 * May 12 - Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, Spanish painter (died 1688)
 * June 6 (bapt.) - Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch artist (died 1698)
 * July 10 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (died 1685)
 * August 22 - Georg Christoph Eimmart, German draughtsman and engraver (died 1705)
 * September 20 - Antonio Gherardi, painter, sculptor and architect (died 1702)
 * October 31 (bapt.) – Meindert Hobbema, Dutch landscape painter (died 1709)
 * date unknown
 * Antonio Franchi, Italian painter active mainly in Florence and Lucca (died 1709)
 * Luigi Garzi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1721)
 * Crisóstomo Martinez, Valencian painter and engraver known for his anatomical atlas (died 1694)
 * Mo'en Mosavver, Persian miniaturist during the Safavid period (died 1697)
 * Jan Karel Donatus van Beecq, Dutch painter (died 1722)

Deaths

 * January - Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish genre painter (born 1605)
 * March 6 - Paulus Moreelse, Dutch painter, mainly of portraits (born 1571)
 * March 10 - Cornelis van der Geest, Flemish merchant and art collector (born 1577)
 * April 14 - Willem Jacobsz Delff, Dutch painter (born 1580)
 * August 1 - Joachim Wtewael, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1566)
 * August 18 - Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo, Italian painter active mainly in Genoa (born 1584)
 * October - Gillis d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter in a Flemish style (born 1575/1580)
 * November 11 - Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter and draughtsman, leading Mannerist artist (born 1562)
 * December 23 - Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (born 1552)
 * date unknown
 * Pietro Francesco Alberti, Italian painter and engraver (born 1584)
 * Baldassare Aloisi, Italian portrait painter and engraver (born 1578)
 * Vincenzo Carducci, Italian painter (born 1568)
 * Santo Peranda, historical painter of Venice (born 1566)
 * Giovanni Giacomo Semenza, Italian painter (born 1580)
 * Magdalena van de Passe, engraver and important member of the Van de Passe family of artists (born 1600)
 * Jacob van Swanenburgh, Dutch history painter and teacher (born 1571)
 * probable
 * Odoardo Fialetti, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1573)
 * Hercules Seghers, Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age (born 1589)