Events from the year 1634 in art.

Events

• (unknown)

Works

• Claude Lorrain
  • Coast Scene with Europa and the Bull (Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas)
  • Goats (etching)
• Nicolas Poussin
  • The Adoration of the Golden Calf
  • The Crossing of the Red Sea
• Rembrandt
  • Artemisia
  • The Descent from the Cross

Deposition from the Cross

• • Deposition from the Cross
  • Diana Bathing with her Nymphs with Actaeon and Callisto
  • Flora
  • Joseph and Potiphar's Wife (etching)
  • Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit
• Peter Paul Rubens - The Adoration of the Magi (for Convent of the White Nuns, Leuven; now in King's College Chapel, Cambridge)
• Anthony van Dyck
  • Magistrates of Brussels (destroyed 1695)
  • Deposition (Alte Pinakothek)
  • Henri II de Lorraine, duc de Guise (approximate date; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
• Diego Velázquez
  • Doña Antonia de Ipeñarrieta y Galdós and Her Son Don Luis
  • Equestrian Portrait of Margarita of Austria
  • Equestrian Portrait of the Count-Duke of Olivares

Births

• January - Nicolaes Maes, Dutch painter of genre works and portraits (died 1693)
• February 5 - Dancker Danckerts, Dutch engraver and publisher (died 1666)
• October 18 - Luca Giordano, Italian painter and printmaker in etching (died 1705)
• date unknown
  • Philippe Caffieri, Italian decorative sculptor (died 1716)
  • Adam Colonia, Dutch painter working in England (died 1688)
  • Tommaso Costa, Italian painter (died 1690)
  • Francesco Ferrari, Italian painter and architect of the Baroque period (died 1708)
  • Ciro Ferri, Italian sculptor and painter (died 1689)
  • Giuseppe Ghezzi, Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome (died 1721)
  • Juan Simón Gutiérrez, Spanish Baroque painter (died 1718)
  • Jacob Levecq, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1675)
  • Bartolomé Pérez, Spanish painter of flowers and still lifes (died 1693)
  • Francesco Pianta, Italian sculptor (died 1690)
  • Jan-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish Baroque painter of large altarpieces and histories (died 1715)
  • Giuseppe Recco, Italian painter (died 1695)
  • Ludovico Trasi, Italian painter, born and active in Ascoli Piceno (died 1694)
  • Egbert van Heemskerck, Dutch painter, also known as Egbert van Heemskerck the Elder (died 1704)
• probable - Eglon van der Neer, Dutch painter of portraits and elegant, fashionable people, and later of landscapes (died 1703)

Deaths

• May
  • Hendrick Avercamp, painter (born 1585)
  • Hans Krumpper, sculptor and plasterer (born 1570)
• November 23 - Wenceslas Cobergher, Flemish Renaissance architect, engineer, painter, antiquarian, numismatist and economist (born 1560)
• December 15 - Eugenio Caxés, Spanish painter (born 1577)
• date unknown
  • Benedetto Bandiera, Italian painter (born 1557/1560)
  • Johan Bara, Dutch painter, designer and engraver (born 1581)
  • Ippolito Buzzi, Italian sculptor (born 1562)
  • Cornelis Danckerts de Ry, Dutch architect and sculptor (born 1561)
  • Epiphanius Evesham, British sculptor (born 1570)
  • Johann Matthias Kager, German painter (born 1566)
  • Johannes Moreelse, Dutch painter (born 1603)
  • Juan Zariñena, Spanish painter (born 1545)