1659 in art

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January 21 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes (d. 1722)
April 11 - Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors (d. 1719)
July 18 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter of Catalan origin (d. 1743)
August 1 - Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter in the Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting (d. 1734)
September 29 - Michael Dahl, Swedish portrait painter (d. 1743)
December 12 - Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1739)
date unknown
- Faustino Bocchi, Italian painter, active in Brescia, who specialized in bizarre paintings of dwarfs (d. 1742)
- Niccolò Cassana, Italian painter born in Venice (d. 1714)
- Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian painter, active in Rome painting still-life paintings of bowls of fruit and flowers (d. 1730)
- Krzysztof Lubieniecki, Polish Baroque painter and engraver (d. 1729)
- Giovanni Battista Marmi. Italian painter (d. 1686)
- John Baptist Medina, Flemish-Spanish portrait painter and illustrator of Paradise Lost (d. 1710)

January 1 - Giovanni Martinelli, Italian painter of allegorical frescoes (d. 1600/1604)
February - Willem Drost, Dutch Baroque painter and printmaker (b. 1633)
October – Valerio Castello, Italian painter (b. 1624)
date unknown
- Jacques Fouquier, Flemish landscape painter (b. c.1591)
- Filippo Gagliardi, Italian painter, active mainly in Rome (b. unknown)
- Giovanni Pietro Possenti, Italian painter of battle scenes (b. 1618)
- Frans Wouters, Flemish Baroque painter (b. 1612)