1638 in art

Events from 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

January 8 - Elisabetta Sirani, Italian painter (died 1665)
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
- Pedro Atanasio Bocanegra, Spanish painter (died 1688)
- Antonio Franchi, Italian painter active mainly in Florence and Lucca (died 1709)
- Luigi Garzi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1721)
- José Mora, Spanish sculptor (died 1725)
- Crisóstomo Martinez, Valencian painter and engraver known for his anatomical atlas (died 1694)
- Muin Musavvir, Persian miniaturist during the Safavid period (died 1697)
- Jan Karel Donatus van Beecq, Dutch painter (died 1722)

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, Dutch 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)

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