1644 in art

Events

• (unknown)

Paintings

• Claude Lorrain
  • Odysseus Returns Chryseis to Her Father
  • Pastoral Landscape with the Arch of Titus
  • View of Tivoli at Sunset
• Hans Gillisz. Bollongier: Blumenstück (Piece of Flower)
• approx. date William Dobson: John, 1st Baron Byron

Births

• April Abraham Storck – Dutch landscape and maritime painter of the Baroque era (d. 1708)
• date unknown
  • Étienne Allegrain, French topographical painter (d. 1736)
  • Domenico Bettini, Italian painter of still lifes (d. unknown)
  • Jacob van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (d. 1675)
  • Yang Jin, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (d. 1728)
• probable - Marziale Carpinoni, Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1722)

Deaths

• January 20 – Stefano Amadei, Italian still-life painter (b. 1580)
• February – Johannes van der Beeck, Dutch painter (b. 1589)
• July 16 – Giovanni Biliverti, Italian Mannerist painter (b. 1585)
• August 2 – Bernardo Strozzi, Italian painter (b. 1581)
• November 27 – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter and writer on painting (b. 1564)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Maria Bottala, Italian painter (b. 1613)
  • George Jamesone, Scottish portrait painter (b. 1587)
  • Claudio Ridolfi, Italian painter (b. 1560)
  • Cui Zizhong – Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (b. unknown)
  • Ni Yuanlu – Chinese calligrapher and painter during the Ming Dynasty (b. 1593)