1669 in art

Events

• Following the fall of Crete to the Ottomans,the Heptanese School, also known as the Ionian Islands' School, succeeds the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting.

Paintings

• Pierre Prieur – miniatures of King Charles II of England and Lady Castlemaine

Births

• date unknown
  • Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter (d. 1732)
  • Giovanni Antonio Capello, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active in Brescia (d. 1741)
  • Antonio Filocamo, Italian painter at various churches and oratories in Messina (d. 1743)
  • Bartolomeo Letterini, Venetian painter (d. 1731)
  • Angelo Trevisani, Italian painter active mainly in Venice (d. 1753)
  • Pierre Le Ber, painter from Montreal, especially of portraits (d. 1707)
  • Ma Yuanyu, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (d. 1722)

Deaths

• January 27 – Caspar de Crayer, Flemish painter (b. 1582)
• May – Joris van der Haagen, Dutch painter (b. 1615)
• May 16 – Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berettini, prolific artist and architect of High Baroque (b. 1596)
• May – Pieter Post, Dutch architect, painter and printmaker (b. 1608)
• July 12 – Theodoor van Thulden, Dutch artist from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant (b. 1606)
• August 10 – Paulus Bor, Dutch painter (b. 1601)
• October 4 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (b. 1606)
• October 18 – Abraham Willaerts, Dutch Baroque painter (b. 1603)
• October 19 – Domenico Fiasella, Italian painter of primarily frescoes (b. 1589)
• date unknown
  • Pier Martire Armani, Italian painter of the Baroque period (b. 1613)
  • Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Genoa (b. 1598)