Events from the year 1630 in art.

• The gardens of Sentō Imperial Palace, Kyoto, are laid out by Kobori Masakazu.

• Reza Abbasi - Two Lovers
• Pieter Claesz - Vanitas Still Life
• Claude Lorrain - Landscape with Merchants (The Shipwreck) (also etching)
• Georges de La Tour - The Fortune Teller
• Judith Leyster
  • A Game of Tric Trac
  • The Happy Couple
  • Self-portrait
• Rembrandt - paintings using chiaroscuro
  • Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem
  • The Raising of Lazarus
• Anthony van Dyck - The Vision of the Blessed Hermann Joseph
• Diego Velázquez - Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan
• Francisco de Zurbarán - Death of Saint Bonaventura

• January 27 - Job Adriaenszoon Berckheyde, Dutch artist (died 1698)
• April 16 - Lambert van Haven, Danish painter, architect and master builder (died 1695)
• August 20 - Maria van Oosterwijck, Dutch painter, specializing in richly detailed still-lifes (died 1693)
• September 27 - Michael Willmann, German painter (died 1706)
• December 28 - Ludolf Bakhuysen, Dutch painter (died 1708)
• date unknown
  • Caius Gabriel Cibber, Danish sculptor (died 1700)
  • Geronimo de Bobadilla, Spanish painter (died 1709)
  • Josefa de Óbidos, Spanish-born, Portuguese painter (died 1684)
  • Pietro Lucatelli, Italian painter active in Rome (died after 1690)
  • Stefano Erardi, Maltese painter (died 1716)^[1]
  • Jean Baptiste Mathey, French architect and painter (died 1696)
  • Francisco Meneses Osorio, Spanish painter (died 1705)
  • Filippo Parodi, sculptor (died 1702)
  • Jan Vermeer van Utrecht, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1696)
• probable
  • Pietro Aquila, Italian painter and printmaker (died 1692)
  • Matias de Arteaga, Spanish painter and engraver (died 1704)
  • Orazio Bruni, Italian engraver (died unknown)
  • Catherine Duchemin, French flower and fruit painter (died 1698)
  • Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts, Flemish painter of still life and trompe-l'œil (died 1683)
  • Juan Valdelmira de Leon, Spanish of primarily still-life paintings of fruit and flowers (died 1660)
  • 1630s: Bogdan Saltanov, Armenian-born Russian painter (died 1703)
  • 1630/1631: Henry Gibbs, English oil painter (died 1713)

• July 13 - Matteo Zaccolini, Italian painter, priest and author (born 1574)
• July 19 - Daniele Crespi, Italian painter and colorist (born 1590)
• August 5 - Antonio Tempesta, Florentine painter and engraver, worked in Rome, influenced by counter-Mannerism (born 1555)
• November - Esaias van de Velde, Dutch landscape painter (born 1587)
• date unknown
  • Marco Antonio Bassetti, Italian painter (born 1588)
  • Ottavio Leoni, Italian painter and printmaker (born 1578)
  • Alessandro Maganza, Italian Mannerist painter (born 1556)
  • Pasquale Ottini, Italian painter active mainly in Verona (born 1570)
  • Jerónimo Rodriguez de Espinosa, Spanish painter (born 1562)
  • victims of the Italian plague of 1629–1631
    • Giovanni Bernardo Carlone, Italian painter of the late-Mannerist and early-Baroque periods (born 1590)
    • Fede Galizia, Italian still life painter (born 1578)
• probable
  • Giulio Cesare Angeli, Italian painter (born 1570)
  • Jacob Hoefnagel, Flemish naturalist and artist (born 1573)
  • Đorđe Mitrofanović, Serbian portraitist, icon painter and muralist (born 1550).