1644 in art
# 1644 in art

Events from the year 1644 in art.

## Events

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

## Works

### Paintings

* Claude, Odysseus Returns Chryseis
* Bollongier, Blumenstück
* 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)
