1646 in art

Events from the year 1646 in art.

Events

January 6 - Jan Van Cleef, Flemish painter (died 1716)
February 10 - Hans Adam Weissenkircher, Austrian Baroque court painter (died 1695)
April 20 - Giacinto Calandrucci, Italian painter at the studio of Carlo Maratta (died 1707)
August 8 - Godfrey Kneller, portrait painter in England (died 1723)
date unknown
- Andrea Belvedere, Italian painter (died unknown)
- Lorenzo Bergonzoni, Italian painter (died 1700)
- Juan Correa, Mexican painter of primarily religious themes (died 1716)
- Pietro Dandini, Italian painter active in Florence (died 1712)
- Benoît Farjat, French engraver (died 1724)
- José García Hidalgo, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1719)
- Francesco Monti, Italian painter of battle scenes (died 1712)
- Pietro Paolo Raggi, Italian Caravaggisti painter of Bacchanal and landscape subjects (died 1724)
probable - Jean-Baptiste Corneille, French painter, etcher, and engraver (died 1695)

April 10 - Santino Solari, Swiss architect and sculptor (born 1576)
August 19 - Francesco Furini, Italian Baroque painter from Florence (born 1600/1603)
October 28 (bur.) - William Dobson, English portrait painter (born 1611)
date unknown
- Alessandro Albini, Italian painter of the early Baroque period (born 1568)
- Antonio Bisquert, Spanish painter of the Baroque period (born 1596)
- Huang Daozhou, Chinese calligrapher, scholar and official of the Ming Dynasty (born 1585)
- Daniel Dumonstier, French portraitist in crayon (born 1574)
- Isaack Gilsemans, Dutch merchant and artist (born 1606)
- Ludovico Lana, Italian painter, mainly active in Modena (born 1597)
- Niccolo Laniere, Italian painter and engraver (born 1608)
probable - Giovanni Stefano Marucelli, Italian painter and architect active mainly in Tuscany (born 1586)