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, Dutch painter (born 1566), 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)