Events from the year 1659 in art.
Paintings
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- January 21 - Adriaen van der Werff, Dutch painter of portraits and erotic, devotional and mythological scenes (died 1722)
- March 4 - Pierre Lepautre, French sculptor (died 1744)
- April 11 - Hendrick van Streeck, Dutch Golden Age painter of church interiors (died 1719)
- July 8 - Justus van Huysum, Dutch Golden Age flower painter (died 1716)
- July 18 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter of Catalan origin (died 1743)
- August 1 - Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter in the Cortonesque style of grand manner fresco painting (died 1734)
- September 29 - Michael Dahl, Swedish portrait painter (died 1743)
- December 12 - Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (died 1739)
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- Faustino Bocchi, Italian painter, active in Brescia, who specialized in bizarre paintings of dwarfs (died 1742)
- Niccolò Cassana, Italian painter born in Venice (died 1714)
- Giovanni Paolo Castelli, Italian painter, active in Rome painting still-life paintings of bowls of fruit and flowers (died 1730)
- Giovanni Girolamo Frezza, Italian engraver (died 1730)
- Bernard Lens II, English engraver, pioneer of mezzotint technique, and publisher (died 1725)
- Krzysztof Lubieniecki, Polish Baroque painter and engraver (died 1729)
- Giovanni Battista Marmi. Italian painter (died 1686)
- John Baptist Medina, Flemish-Spanish portrait painter and illustrator of Paradise Lost (died 1710)
- Thomas van der Wilt, Dutch painter (died 1733)
- Catharina Ykens, Flemish Baroque painter (died unknown)
