1641 in art
# 1641 in art

Events from the year 1641 in art.

## Events

* Claude Lorrain completes a series of twelve etchings of land- and seascapes.
* Gerard Dou and Diego Velázquez are painting.
* Peter Lely moves from Haarlem to London at about this date.

## Paintings

* Claude Lorrain - The Embarkation of St. Ursula
* Guercino
   * The Flagellation of Christ
   * The Suicide of Cato
* Willem Claesz. Heda – The Blackcurrant Pie
* Luis de Morales - Madonna della Purità
* Le Nain brothers - Venus at Vulcan's Forge
* Nicolas Poussin - Time Rescuing Truth from the Assaults of Discord and Envy
* Rembrandt
   * The Girl in a Picture Frame
   * The Scholar at the Lectern
   * The Concord of the State
   * Portrait of Agatha Bas
   * Portrait of Nicolaes van Bambeeck
   * Portrait of the Mennonite preacher Cornelius Claesz Anslo and his wife Aeltje Gerritsdr Schouten
   * Saskia as Flora
   * The Windmill (etching)
* Andrea Sacchi - Marcantonio Pasqualini Crowned by Apollo
* Sebastian Stoskopff – Great Vanity
* Sir Anthony van Dyck - Self-portrait
* Johannes Cornelisz Verspronck - Girl in a Blue Dress

## Births

* May - Johann Weikhard von Valvasor, Carniolan nobleman, scientist, writer, draughtsman, and polymath (died 1693)
* May 17 - Pierre Monier, French painter (died 1703)
* September 8 - Jacobus Storck, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1700)
* September 11 - Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist (died 1711)
* September 22 - Titus van Rijn, son and model of Rembrandt (died 1668)
* date unknown
   * Johann Franz Ermels, German painter and engraver (died 1693)
   * Juan Conchillos Falco, Spanish painter (died 1711)
   * Thomas Heeremans, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1694)
   * Pieter Peutemans, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1698)
   * Pasquale Rossi, Italian painter (died 1718)
   * Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella, French engraver (died 1676)
   * Tao Chi, Chinese landscape painter (died 1720)
   * Herman Verelst, Dutch Golden Age portrait and still life painter (died 1690)
   * Jan Pietersz Zomer, Dutch engraver, copyist, and art collector (died 1724)

## Deaths

* January 11 - Juan de Jáuregui, Spanish poet and painter (born 1583)
* April 16 - Domenichino (Domenico Zampieri), Italian Baroque painter (born 1581)
* June 27 - Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, Dutch painter, born at Delft (born 1567)
* November - Andrés López Polanco, Spanish Baroque portrait painter (born unknown)
* December 9 - Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish Baroque painter who became the leading court painter in England (born 1599)
* date unknown
   * Juan Bautista de Espinosa, Spanish still life painter (born 1590)
   * Léonard Gaultier, French engraver (born 1561)
   * Lazzaro Tavarone, Genoese painter (born 1556)
   * Adam van Noort, Flemish painter and draughtsman (born 1561/1562)
   * Artus Wolffort, Flemish painter (born 1581)
* probable - Ottavio Viviani, Italian painter of quadratura (born 1579)
