Events from the Year 1644 in Art
Events
Nicolas Poussin commences work on the second series of Seven Sacraments.
Works
Paintings
- Hans Gillisz. Bollongier – Blumenstück (“Piece of Flower”)
- Claude Lorrain – Odysseus Returns Chryseis to Her Father
- Claude Lorrain – Pastoral Landscape with the Arch of Titus
- Claude Lorrain – View of Tivoli at Sunset
- William Dobson – John, 1st Baron Byron (approximate date)
- Sebastian Stoskopff – Glasses in a Basket
- David Teniers the Younger – The Smokers
- Diego Velázquez – Coronation of the Virgin
Sculpture
- Alessandro Algardi – Tomb of Pope Leo XI
Births
- April – Abraham Storck, Dutch landscape and maritime painter of the Baroque era (died 1708)
- Date unknown – Étienne Allegrain, French topographical painter (died 1736)
- Francisco Antolínez, Spanish historical and landscape painter (died 1700)
- Domenico Bettini, Italian painter of still lifes (d. unknown)
- Jacob van Huchtenburg, Dutch painter (died 1675)
- Yang Jin, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1728)
- Simon Pietersz Verelst, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1710)
- Date unknown – Pietro Erardi, Maltese chaplain and painter (died 1727)
- Probable – Marziale Carpinoni, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1722)
- Elizabeth Haselwood, English silversmith (died 1715)
Deaths
- January 20 – Stefano Amadei, Italian still-life painter (born 1580)
- February – Johannes van der Beeck, Dutch painter (born 1589)
- May 11 – Domingos da Cunha, Portuguese painter (born 1598)
- June 14 – Jean Toutin, French enamel worker, one of the first artists to make enamel portrait miniatures (born 1578)
- July 16 – Giovanni Biliverti, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1585)
- August 2 – Bernardo Strozzi, Italian painter (born 1581)
- November 27 – Francisco Pacheco, Spanish painter and writer on painting (born 1564)
- Date unknown – Giovanni Maria Bottala, Italian painter (born 1613)
- Giovanni Battista Calandra, Italian mosaic artist (born 1568)
- George Jamesone, Scottish portrait painter (born 1587)
- Ni Yuanlu, Chinese calligrapher and painter during the Ming Dynasty (born 1593)
- Claudio Ridolfi, Italian painter (born 1560)
- Bernard van Linge, Dutch glass and enamel painter (born 1598)
- Cui Zizhong, Chinese painter during the Ming Dynasty (born unknown)