1639 in art

Events from the year 1639 in art.

Events

 * Rembrandt acquires a house in Jodenbreestraat, Amsterdam, now the Rembrandthuis museum.

Paintings

 * Claude Lorrain
 * Seaport at Sunset, sometimes referred to as View of a Seaport
 * Village Fête
 * Pietro da Cortona - Allegory of Divine Providence and Barberini Power
 * Artemisia Gentileschi - Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
 * Guido Reni - The Rape of Europa
 * Jusepe de Ribera
 * Jacob’s Dream
 * Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, an example of Mannerism and especially the influence of Caravaggio on a contemporary of Francisco de Zurbarán in Spain.
 * Peter Paul Rubens - The Three Graces
 * Diego Velázquez
 * The Jester Calabacillas
 * The Lady with a Fan
 * Zhang Yan - Plum Blossoms in Snow

Births

 * May 8 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli (known as Il Baciccio), Italian painter of High Baroque (died 1709)
 * August 6 – Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Danish sculptor and architect (died 1699)
 * date unknown
 * Hendrik Abbé, Flemish engraver, painter, and architect (died unknown)
 * Claude Audran the Younger, French painter (died 1684)
 * Ignatius Croon, Flemish Baroque painter (died 1667)
 * Louis de Chastillon, French painter in enamel and miniature, and engraver (died 1734)
 * Dirck Ferreris, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1693)
 * Abraham Myra, Finnish painter (died 1684)
 * Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait and genre works painter (died 1684)
 * Bernardo Racchetti, Italian painter of imaginary vedute (died 1702)
 * Cristoforo Savolini, Italian painter of altarpieces (died 1677)
 * Gian Domenico Valentini, Italian painter of still lifes (died 1715)

Deaths

 * January 12 - Reinhold Timm, Danish painter and teacher (born unknown)
 * February
 * Orazio Gentileschi, Italian Baroque Caravaggisti painter (born 1563)
 * Roelant Savery, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1576)
 * May 22 - Tiberio Tinelli, Italian painter of portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice (born 1586)
 * July 22 - Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1571)
 * date unknown
 * Bernardino Capitelli, Italian painter and etcher (born 1589)
 * Chen Jiru, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty (born 1558)
 * William Peake, English painter and printseller (born 1580)
 * Marcello Provenzale, Italian painter and mosaicist (born 1575)
 * Shōkadō Shōjō, Japanese Edo period Buddhist monk, painter, calligrapher and master of the tea ceremony (born 1584)
 * probable Baldassare d'Anna – Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period (born 1560)