# 1638 in art

This is a list of events that occurred in the year 1638 in art.

## Events

* Anthony van Dyck is granted denizenship by Charles I of England and marries Mary, daughter of Lord Ruthven; his assistant Adriaen Hanneman returns to his native Hague to become the leading portraitist there.
* Francisco Zurbarán begins work on the series of paintings in the Santa María de Guadalupe

## Works

* Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Bust of Thomas Baker
* Frans Hals – Claes Duyst van Voorhout
* Hubert Le Sueur – Equestrian statue of Charles I, Charing Cross (London)
* Nicolas Poussin – Et in Arcadia ego (Les bergers d'Arcadie, Louvre)
* Rembrandt
** Landscape with the Good Samaritan
** Stormy Landscape
* Peter Paul Rubens
** The Massacre of the Innocents (second version – approximate date)
** The Judgement of Paris (second version – approximate date)
* Justus Sustermans – Portrait of Galileo Galilei
* Anthony van Dyck – some dates approximate
** Equestrian Portrait of Charles I
** George Digby
** Thomas Killigrew
** Thomas Killigrew and Lord Crofts
** Lord John Stuart and his brother Lord Bernard Stuart
** Triple Portrait of Henrietta Maria

## Births

* January 8 - Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (died 1665)
* May 12 - Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, Spanish painter (died 1688)
* June 6 (bapt.) - Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch artist (died 1698)
* July 10 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (died 1685)
* August 22 - Georg Christoph Eimmart, German draughtsman and engraver (died 1705)
* September 20 - Antonio Gherardi, painter, sculptor and architect (died 1702)
* October 31 (bapt.) – Meindert Hobbema, Dutch landscape painter (died 1709)
* date unknown
** Antonio Franchi, Italian painter active mainly in Florence and Lucca (died 1709)
** Luigi Garzi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1721)
** Crisóstomo Martinez, Valencian painter and engraver known for his anatomical atlas (died 1694)
** Mo'en Mosavver, Persian miniaturist during the Safavid period (died 1697)
** Jan Karel Donatus van Beecq, Dutch painter (died 1722)

## Deaths

* January - Adriaen Brouwer, Flemish genre painter (born 1605)
* March 6 - Paulus Moreelse, Dutch painter, mainly of portraits (born 1571)
* March 10 - Cornelis van der Geest, Flemish merchant and art collector (born 1577)
* April 14 - Willem Jacobsz Delff, Dutch painter (born 1580)
* August 1 - Joachim Wtewael, Dutch painter and engraver (born 1566)
* August 18 - Giovanni Andrea Ansaldo, Italian painter active mainly in Genoa (born 1584)
* October - Gillis d'Hondecoeter, Dutch painter in a Flemish style (born 1575/1580)
* November 11 - Cornelis van Haarlem, Dutch painter and draughtsman, leading Mannerist artist (born 1562)
* December 23 - Barbara Longhi, Italian painter (born 1552)
* date unknown
** Pietro Francesco Alberti, Italian painter and engraver (born 1584)
** Baldassare Aloisi, Italian portrait painter and engraver (born 1578)
** Vincenzo Carducci, Italian painter (born 1568)
** Santo Peranda, historical painter of Venice (born 1566)
** Giovanni Giacomo Semenza, Italian painter (born 1580)
** Magdalena van de Passe, engraver and important member of the Van de Passe family of artists (born 1600)
** Jacob van Swanenburgh, Dutch history painter and teacher (born 1571)
* probable
** Odoardo Fialetti, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1573)
** Hercules Seghers, Dutch painter and printmaker of the Dutch Golden Age (born 1589)