1664 in art

Births

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)
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)
- Giacomo Bolognini, Italian painter 1734)
- Philipp Ferdinand de Hamilton, painter from the Southern Netherlands active in Austria (died 1750)
- Guglielmo da Leoni, Italian painter and engraver (died 1740)
- 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)
April 15 - Lorenzo Lippi, Italian painter and poet (born 1606)
May 5 - Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian painter (born 1609)
May 11 - Salomon de Bray (or Braij), Dutch painter (born 1597)
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)
- Francisco de Zurbarán, Spanish painter (born 1598)
date unknown
- Jan Pieter Brueghel, Flemish Baroque painter (born 1628)
- 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)

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