1644 in art

Events from the year 1644 in art.

Events

 * Nicolas Poussin begins to paint the second series of Seven Sacraments. 

Paintings

 * Hans Gillisz. Bollongier – Blumenstück ("Piece of Flower")
 * Claude Lorrain
 * Odysseus Returns Chryseis to Her Father
 * Pastoral Landscape with the Arch of Titus
 * View of Tivoli at Sunset
 * William Dobson – John, 1st Baron Byron (approximate date)
 * Sebastian Stoskopff – Glasses in a Basket
 * David Teniers the Younger – The Smokers
 * Diego Velázquez – Coronation of the Virgin

Sculpture

 * Alessandro Algardi – Tomb of Pope Leo XI

Births

 * April - Abraham Storck, Dutch landscape and maritime painter of the Baroque era (died 1708 )
 * date unknown
 * Étienne Allegrain, French topographical painter (died 1736)
 * Francisco Antolínez, Spanish historical and landscape painter (died 1700)
 * Domenico Bettini, Italian painter of still lifes (d. unknown)
 * Jacob van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (died 1675)
 * Yang Jin, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1728)
 * Simon Pietersz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1710)
 * date unknown - Pietro Erardi, Maltese chaplain and painter (died 1727)
 * probable
 * Marziale Carpinoni, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1722)
 * Elizabeth Haselwood English silversmith (died 1715)

Deaths

 * January 20 – Stefano Amadei, Italian still-life painter (born 1580)
 * February – Johannes van der Beeck, Dutch painter (born 1589)
 * May 11 - Domingos da Cunha, Portuguese painter (born 1598)
 * June 14 - Jean Toutin, French enamel worker, one of the first artists to make enamel portrait miniatures (born 1578)
 * July 16 – Giovanni Biliverti, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1585)
 * August 2 – Bernardo Strozzi, Italian painter (born 1581)
 * November 27 – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter and writer on painting (born 1564)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Maria Bottala, Italian painter (born 1613)
 * Giovanni Battista Calandra, Italian mosaic artist (born 1568)
 * George Jamesone, Scottish portrait painter (born 1587)
 * Ni Yuanlu, Chinese calligrapher and painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1593)
 * Claudio Ridolfi, Italian painter (born 1560)
 * Bernard van Linge, Dutch glass and enamel painter (born 1598)
 * Cui Zizhong, Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (born unknown)