1659 in art

Events from the year 1659 in art.

Events

 * Frescoes at the Quirinal Palace in Rome are completed by Pietro da Cortona and his team of artists.

Paintings

 * Peter Lely - A Boy as a Shepherd (approximate date)
 * Rembrandt
 * hendrickje as flora
 * Jacob Wrestling with the Angel
 * Moses with Law
 * Self Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar
 * Salvator Rosa - Allegory of Fortune
 * Adriaen van Ostade - The Fish Market
 * Diego Velázquez
 * Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress
 * Portrait of Prince Philip Prospero
 * Jan Vermeer - Officer and a Laughing Girl (1657–59)

Births

 * January 21 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes (died 1722)
 * March 4 - Pierre Lepautre, French sculptor (died 1744)
 * April 11 - Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors (died 1719)
 * July 8 - Justus van Huysum, Dutch Golden Age flower painter (died 1716)
 * July 18 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter of Catalan origin (died 1743)
 * August 1 - Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter in the Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting (died 1734)
 * September 29 - Michael Dahl, Swedish portrait painter (died 1743)
 * December 12 - Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (died 1739)
 * date unknown
 * Faustino Bocchi, Italian painter, active in Brescia, who specialized in bizarre paintings of dwarfs (died 1742)
 * Niccolò Cassana, Italian painter born in Venice (died 1714)
 * Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian painter, active in Rome painting still-life paintings of bowls of fruit and flowers (died 1730)
 * Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian engraver (died 1730)
 * Bernard Lens II, English engraver, pioneer of mezzotint technique, and publisher (died 1725)
 * Krzysztof Lubieniecki, Polish Baroque painter and engraver (died 1729)
 * Giovanni Battista Marmi. Italian painter (died 1686)
 * John Baptist Medina, Flemish-Spanish portrait painter and illustrator of Paradise Lost (died 1710)
 * Thomas van der Wilt, Dutch painter (died 1733)
 * Catharina Ykens, Flemish Baroque painter (died unknown)

Deaths

 * January 1 - Giovanni Martinelli, Italian painter of allegorical frescoes (died 1600/1604)
 * February - Willem Drost, Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker (born 1633)
 * October – Valerio Castello, Italian painter (born 1624)
 * date unknown
 * Pedro de Obregón, Spanish painter and printmaker (born 1597)
 * Jacques Fouquier, Flemish landscape painter (born 1591)
 * Filippo Gagliardi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome (date of birth unknown)
 * Jean Lemaire, French painter (born 1598)
 * Giovanni Pietro Possenti, Italian painter of battle scenes (born 1618)
 * Frans Wouters, Flemish Baroque painter (born 1612)