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Overview of the events of 1640 in art
Events from the year 1640 in art.
Events
Paintings
Births
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June 21 -
Abraham Mignon,
Dutch flower painter born at
Frankfurt (died
1679)
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August 2 -
Gérard Audran,
French
engraver of the Audran family (died
1703)
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September 11 (or 1641) -
Gerard de Lairesse,
Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist (died
1711)
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September 29 -
Antoine Coysevox, French
sculptor who emigrated from
Spain (died
1720)
- date unknown
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Filippo Abbiati,
Italian painter (died
1715)
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Jean François Baudesson, French painter of flowers and fruit (died
1713)
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Giovanni Lorenzo Bertolotti, Italian painter, active in
Genoa (died
1721)
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Jacques d'Agar, French portrait painter (died
1716)
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Henry Gyles, English glass painter (died
1709)
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Buhurizade Mustafa Itri,
Ottoman-
Turkish musician, composer, calligrapher, singer and poet (died
1712)
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Isaac Paling, Dutch Golden Age painter (died
1728)
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Jose Risueño,
Spanish painter who helped decorate the cupola of the church in the
Carthusian monastery (died
1721)
- probable
Deaths
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January -
Johann Wilhelm Baur, German engraver, etcher and miniature painter (born
1607)
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January 8 -
Alfonso Rivarola, Italian painter, active mainly in his native
Ferrara (born
1607)
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February 4 (bur.) -
Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom, Dutch painter (born
1566), father of
Cornelis Hendriksz Vroom
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May 30 -
Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (born
1577)
- June -
Abraham van der Doort, Dutch-born artist and curator (born c. 1575/1580?) (suicide)
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July 3 -
Giuseppe Cesari, Italian painter (born
1568)
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August 3 -
Giovanni Antonio Lelli, Italian painter of the
Baroque period (born
1591)
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September 30 -
Jacopo da Empoli, Italian late-
mannerist painter (born
1551)
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October 26 -
Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor and follower of
Giambologna (born
1557)
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November 22 -
Mario Minniti, Italian painter, who was also the model for
Caravaggio's painting
Boy with a Basket of Fruit (born
1577)
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November 25 -
Pellegrino Piola, Italian painter (born
1617)
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December 22 -
Jean de Beaugrand,
French
lineographer and mathematician (born
1584)
- date unknown
- probable