1638 in art

Infobox Painting|

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title=Stormy Landscape
artist=Rembrandt
year=1638
type=oil on canvas
height=57
width=72
museum=Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

Events

*Francisco Zurbarán begins work on the series of paintings in the Santa María de Guadalupe

Works

*Gian Lorenzo Bernini - "Bust of Thomas Baker"
*Nicolas Poussin - "Les Bergers d'Arcadie"
*Rembrandt - "Stormy Landscape"
*Justus Sustermans - "Portrait of Galileo Galilei"

Births

* July 10 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (died 1685)
* October 31 (bapt.) - Meindert Hobbema, Dutch landscape painter (died 1709)
* Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (died 1665)
* Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde - Dutch artist (died 1698)
* Antonio Gherardi - painter, sculptor and architect (d. 1702)
* Jose Mora, Spanish sculptor (d. 1725)
* Antonio Franchi - Italian painter active mainly in Florence and Lucca (died 1709)
* Luigi Garzi - Italian painter of the Baroque period (d. 1721)

Deaths

* Baldassare Aloisi, Italian portrait painter and engraver (b. 1578)
* Adriaen Brouwer - Flemish genre painter (b. 1605)
* Cornelis van Haarlem - Dutch painter and draughtsman, was one of the leading Mannerist artists in The Netherlands (b. 1562)
* Hercules Seghers - Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age (b. 1589)
* Gillis d'Hondecoeter - Dutch painter who worked in a Flemish style (b. 1575/1580)
* Joachim Wtewael - Dutch painter and engraver (b. 1566)
* Vincenzo Carducci - Italian painter (b. 1568)
* Santo Peranda - a historical painter of Venice (b. 1566)
* Palamedes Palamedeszoon "Stevaerts" I (b. 1607), Dutch battle painter
* Pietro Francesco Alberti - Italian painter and engraver for the late-Renaissance and early-Baroque periods (b. 1584)
* Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo - Italian painter active mainly in Genoa (b. 1584)
* Adriaen Brouwer - Flemish genre painter (b. 1605)
* Giovanni Giacomo Semenza - Italian painter of the early Baroque period (b. 1580)
* Tiberio Tinelli - Italian painter of portraits of aristocracy, merchants, and intellectuals in Venice (b. 1586)