1641 in art

Events from the year 1641 in art.

Events

 * Claude Lorrain completes a series of twelve etchings of land- and seascapes.
 * Gerard Dou and Diego Velázquez are painting.

Paintings

 * Claude Lorrain - The Embarkation of St. Ursula
 * Guercino
 * The Flagellation of Christ
 * The Suicide of Cato
 * Willem Claesz. Heda – The Blackcurrant Pie
 * Luis de Morales - Madonna della Purità
 * Le Nain brothers - Venus at Vulcan's Forge
 * Nicolas Poussin - Time Rescuing Truth from the Assaults of Discord and Envy
 * Rembrandt
 * The Girl in a Picture Frame
 * The Scholar at the Lectern
 * The Concord of the State
 * Portrait of Agatha Bas
 * Portrait of Nicolaes van Bambeeck
 * Portrait of the Mennonite preacher Cornelius Claesz Anslo and his wife Aeltje Gerritsdr Schouten
 * Saskia as Flora
 * The Windmill (etching)
 * Andrea Sacchi - Marcantonio Pasqualini Crowned by Apollo
 * Sebastian Stoskopff – Great Vanity
 * Sir Anthony van Dyck - Self-portrait
 * Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck - Girl in a Blue Dress

Births

 * May - Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Carniolan nobleman, scientist, writer, draughtsman, and polymath (died 1693)
 * May 17 - Pierre Monier, French painter (died 1703)
 * September 8 - Jacobus Storck, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1700)
 * September 11 - Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist (died 1711)
 * September 22 - Titus van Rijn, son and model of Rembrandt (died 1668)
 * date unknown
 * Johann Franz Ermels, German painter and engraver (died 1693)
 * Juan Conchillos Falco, Spanish painter (died 1711)
 * Thomas Heeremans, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1694)
 * Pieter Peutemans, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1698)
 * Pasquale Rossi, Italian painter (died 1718)
 * Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella, French engraver (died 1676)
 * Tao Chi, Chinese landscape painter (died 1720)
 * Herman Verelst, Dutch Golden Age portrait and still life painter (died 1690)
 * Jan Pietersz Zomer, Dutch engraver, copyist, and art collector (died 1724)

Deaths

 * January 11 - Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish poet and painter (born 1583)
 * April 16 - Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri), Italian Baroque painter (born 1581)
 * June 27 - Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch painter, born at Delft (born 1567)
 * November - Andrés López Polanco, Spanish Baroque portrait painter (born unknown)
 * December 9 - Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish Baroque painter who became the leading court painter in England (born 1599)
 * date unknown
 * Juan Bautista de Espinosa, Spanish still life painter (born 1590)
 * Léonard Gaultier, French engraver (born 1561)
 * Lazzaro Tavarone, Genoese painter (born 1556)
 * Adam van Noort, Flemish painter and draughtsman (born 1561/1562)
 * Artus Wolffort, Flemish painter (born 1581)
 * probable - Ottavio Viviani, Italian painter of quadratura (born 1579)