1664 in art

Events from the year 1664 in art.

Events

Approximate date - Isaac Fuller executes ceiling paintings in the chapels of All Souls and Magdalen College, Oxford, England.^[1]

May 20 - Andreas Schlüter, German baroque sculptor and architect in the Petrine Baroque style (died 1714)
June 3 - Rachel Ruysch, Dutch artist who specialized in still-life paintings of flowers (died 1750)^[2]
December 26 - Johann Melchior Dinglinger, one of Europe's greatest goldsmiths, German artist in a Mannerist tradition into the "Age of Rococo" (died 1731)
date unknown
- Giuseppe Alberti, Italian painter (died 1716)
- Ferrante Amendola, Italian historical painter (died 1724)
- Juan Bautista Bayuco, Spanish religious-themed painter (died unknown)
- Philipp Ferdinand de Hamilton, painter from the Southern Netherlands active in Austria (died 1750)
- Guglielmo da Leoni, Italian painter and engraver (died 1740)^[3]
- Rolando Marchelli, Italian painter from Genoa (died unknown)
- Alessandro Marchesini, Italian painter of allegories with small figures (died 1738)
- Mehmet Emin Tokadi, Ottoman Sufi saint, writer, calligrapher, and scholar (died 1745)
- Pablo González Velázquez, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1727)
probable - Torii Kiyonobu I, Japanese painter and printmaker in the ukiyo-e style, especially on Kabuki signboards (died 1729)

February John Hoskins, English miniature painter (date of birth unknown)
April 4 - Adam Willaerts, Dutch painter (born 1577)^[4]
May 5 - Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian painter (born 1609)^[5]
May 11 - Salomon de Bray (or Braij), Dutch painter (born 1597)^[6]
July 12 - Stefano della Bella, Italian printmaker known for etchings of many subjects, including military ones (born 1610)
August 3 - Jacopo Vignali, Florentine painter (born 1592)
August 27
- Cornelis Pietersz Bega (the "Little Master"), Dutch painter, etcher and draughtsman (born 1631)^[7]
- Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter (born 1598)
date unknown
- Michel Corneille the Elder, French painter, etcher, and engraver (born 1601)
- Jacob Heinrich Elbfas, Livonia-born portraitist (born 1600)
probable
- Lan Ying, Chinese painter of landscapes, human figures, flowers and birds during the Ming Dynasty (born 1585)
- (died 1664/1673) Antonio Maria Vassallo, Italian painter of mythological scenes and still lifes (born 1620)
- Reinier Nooms, Dutch maritime painter and etcher (born c. 1623)
possible – Jan Pieter Brueghel, Flemish Baroque painter (born 1628)

^ Solkin, David H. (1999). "Isaac Fuller's Escape of Charles II: A Restoration Tragicomedy". Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes. 62: 199–240. JSTOR 751387.
^ Keyes, George S. (2004). Masters of Dutch Painting (1st ed.). Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts. pp. 212–214.
^ Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical. Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 44.
^ "Adam Willaerts". RKD. Retrieved 3 December 2025.
^ Jeutter, E. (2004). Zur Problematik der Rembrandt-Rezeption im Werk des Genuesen Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Genua 1609-1664 Mantua): eine Untersuchung zu seinem Stil und seinen Nachwirkungen im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (in German). VDG. ISBN 978-3-89739-466-7.
^ Von Moltke, Joachim Wolfgang (1938–1939). "Salomon de Bray". Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft. 11/12 (11–12): 309–420. doi:10.2307/1348536. JSTOR 1348536.
^ "Cornelis Bega". RKD. Retrieved 3 December 2025.