Works

• Pieter Brueghel the Younger
  • Spring
  • Winter
• Guercino - Venus, Cupid and Mars
• Jacob Jordaens – The Golden Apple of Discord at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis
• Hubert Le Sueur – Equestrian statue of Charles I (subsequently erected at Charing Cross, London)

• Claude Lorrain
  • Coast View
  • Landscape with the Judgment of Paris
• Rembrandt
  • Portrait of a Man Rising from His Chair
  • Portrait of a Young Woman with a Fan
  • The Shipbuilder and his Wife
  • The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
• Sebastian Stoskopff
  • The Five Senses, or Summer
• Anthony van Dyck
  • Charles I with M. de St Antoine
  • Self-portrait with a Sunflower
  • Venetia Digby on her Death Bed

Births

• February 20 - Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (died 1702)
• March 26 (bapt.) - Mary Beale, English portrait painter (died 1699)
• April - Willem Drost, Dutch painter and printmaker (died 1659)
• December - Willem van de Velde the Younger, painter (died 1707)
• date unknown
  • Agostino Bonisoli, Italian painter, active mainly in Cremona (died 1700)
  • Dirck Helmbreker, Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman (died 1696)
  • Emilio Taruffi, Italian painter of canvases and altarpieces, assassinated (died 1696)
  • Yun Shouping, Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty (died 1690)
• probable
  • Hendrick Fromantiou, Dutch still life painter (died c.1693)
  • Jacob Huysmans, Flemish portrait painter (died 1696)

Deaths

• February - Roelant Savery, Flanders-born Dutch baroque painter of the Golden Age (died 1576)
• April - Pieter Lastman, Dutch painter (born 1583)
• October - Jean LeClerc, painter (born c.1587)
• October 2 - Scipione Borghese, art collector (born 1576)
• November 3 - Lucio Massari, Italian painter of the School of Bologna (born 1569)
• December 18 - Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver (born 1571)
• December 29 - Cornelis Claesz van Wieringen, Dutch marine painter (born 1580)
• date unknown
  • Alessandro Bardelli, Italian painter (born 1583)
  • Miquel Bestard, Spanish painter from Majorca (born 1592)
  • Boetius à Bolswert, Dutch painter (born 1585)
  • Juan de Peñalosa, Spanish painter of altarpieces, a priest and poet (born 1579)
  • William Segar, portrait painter and officer of arms to the court of Elizabeth I of England (born 1554)
  • Giovanni Valesio, Italian painter and engraver from Bologna (born 1583)
  • Jan de Wael I, Flemish painter of the Baroque period (born 1558)