1669 in art

Events from the year 1669 in art.

• Following the fall of Crete to the Ottomans, the Heptanese School, also known as the Ionian Islands' School, succeeds the Cretan school as the leading school of Greek post-Byzantine painting.

• Bartolomé Esteban Murillo - Return of the Prodigal Son
• Pierre Prieur – Portrait miniatures of King Charles II of England and Lady Castlemaine
• Jan Vermeer – The Geographer

• September 21 - Pietro Ercole Fava, Italian nobleman and art patron (died 1744)
• December 16 - Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter (died 1729)
• date unknown
  • Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter (died 1732)
  • Giovanni Antonio Capello, Italian painter, active in Brescia (died 1741)
  • Alessio Erardi, Maltese painter (died 1727)^[1]
  • Antonio Filocamo, Italian painter at various churches and oratories in Messina (died 1743)
  • Bartolomeo Letterini, Venetian painter (died 1731)
  • Angelo Trevisani, Italian painter active mainly in Venice (died 1753)
  • Pierre Le Ber, painter from Montreal, especially of portraits (died 1707)
  • Ma Yuanyu, Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (died 1722)

• January 27 – Caspar de Crayer, Flemish painter (born 1582)
• May
  • Joris van der Haagen, Dutch painter (born 1615)
  • Pieter Post, Dutch architect, painter and printmaker (born 1608)
• May 16 – Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berettini, prolific artist and architect of High Baroque (born 1596)
• July 12 – Theodoor van Thulden, Dutch artist from 's-Hertogenbosch in North Brabant (born 1606)
• July 17 - Herman van Aldewereld, Dutch portrait painter (born 1628)
• August 10 – Paulus Bor, Dutch painter (born 1601)
• October 4 – Rembrandt, Dutch painter and etcher (born 1606)^[2]
• October 18 – Abraham Willaerts, Dutch Baroque painter (born 1603)
• October 19 – Domenico Fiasella, Italian painter of primarily frescoes (born 1589)
• December 24 - Antonio Giorgetti, Italian sculptor (born 1635)
• date unknown
  • François Anguier, French sculptor (born 1604)
  • Pier Martire Armani, Italian painter (born 1613)
  • Ludolph Büsinck, German wood-engraver (born in 1590s)
  • Giovanni Andrea de Ferrari, Italian painter of the Baroque period active in Genoa (born 1598)
  • Albert Flamen, Dutch engraver (born 1620)
  • 1669/1677: Bartholomeus Assteyn, Dutch painter (born 1607)