1669 in art

Events from the year 1669 in art.

Events

 * Following the fall of Crete to the Ottomans, the Heptanese School, also known as the Ionian Islands' School, succeeds the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting.

Paintings

 * Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - Return of the Prodigal Son
 * Pierre Prieur – Portrait miniatures of King Charles II of England and Lady Castlemaine
 * Jan Vermeer – The Geographer

Births

 * September 21 - Pietro Ercole Fava, Italian nobleman and art patron (died 1744)
 * December 16 - Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter (died 1729)
 * date unknown
 * Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter (died 1732)
 * Giovanni Antonio Capello, Italian painter, active in Brescia (died 1741)
 * Alessio Erardi, Maltese painter (died 1727)
 * Antonio Filocamo, Italian painter at various churches and oratories in Messina (died 1743)
 * Bartolomeo Letterini, Venetian painter (died 1731)
 * Angelo Trevisani, Italian painter active mainly in Venice (died 1753)
 * Pierre Le Ber, painter from Montreal, especially of portraits (died 1707)
 * Ma Yuanyu, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1722)

Deaths

 * January 27 – Caspar de Crayer, Flemish painter (born 1582)
 * May
 * Joris van der Haagen, Dutch painter (born 1615)
 * Pieter Post, Dutch architect, painter and printmaker (born 1608)
 * May 16 – Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berettini, prolific artist and architect of High Baroque (born 1596)
 * July 12 – Theodoor van Thulden, Dutch artist from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant (born 1606)
 * July 17 - Herman van Aldewereld, Dutch portrait painter (born 1628)
 * August 10 – Paulus Bor, Dutch painter (born 1601)
 * October 4 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1606)
 * October 18 – Abraham Willaerts, Dutch Baroque painter (born 1603)
 * October 19 – Domenico Fiasella, Italian painter of primarily frescoes (born 1589)
 * December 24 - Antonio Giorgetti, Italian sculptor (born 1635)
 * date unknown
 * François Anguier, French sculptor (born 1604)
 * Pier Martire Armani, Italian painter (born 1613)
 * Ludolph Büsinck, German wood-engraver (born in 1590s)
 * Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Genoa (born 1598)
 * Albert Flamen, Dutch engraver (born 1620)
 * 1669/1677: Bartholomeus Assteyn, Dutch painter (born 1607)