1639 in art

Events from the year 1639 in art.

Events

Rembrandt acquires a house in Jodenbreestraat, Amsterdam, now the Rembrandthuis museum.

May 8 – Giovanni Battista Gaulli (known as Il Baciccio), Italian painter of High Baroque (died 1709)
August 6 – Hans van Steenwinckel the Youngest, Danish sculptor and architect (died 1699)
date unknown
- Hendrik Abbé, Flemish engraver, painter, and architect (died unknown)
- Claude Audran the Younger, French painter (died 1684)
- Ignatius Croon, Flemish Baroque painter (died 1667)
- Louis de Chastillon, French painter in enamel and miniature, and engraver (died 1734)
- Dirck Ferreris, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1693)
- Abraham Myra, Finnish painter (died 1684)
- Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait and genre works painter (died 1684)
- Bernardo Racchetti, Italian painter of imaginary vedute (died 1702)
- Cristoforo Savolini, Italian painter of altarpieces (died 1677)
- Gian Domenico Valentini, Italian painter of still lifes (died 1715)

January 12 - Reinhold Timm, Danish painter and teacher (born unknown)
February
- Orazio Gentileschi, Italian Baroque Caravaggisti painter (born 1563)
- Roelant Savery, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1576)
May 22 - Tiberio Tinelli, Italian painter of portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice (born 1586)
July 22 - Rutilio di Lorenzo Manetti, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1571)
date unknown
- Bernardino Capitelli, Italian painter and etcher (born 1589)
- Chen Jiru, Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher during the Ming Dynasty (born 1558)
- William Peake, English painter and printseller (born 1580)
- Marcello Provenzale, Italian painter and mosaicist (born 1575)
- Shōkadō Shōjō, Japanese Edo period Buddhist monk, painter, calligrapher and master of the tea ceremony (born 1584)
probable Baldassare d'Anna – Italian painter of the late-Renaissance period (born 1560)