title: 1640 in art
text: # 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)
  