Events from the year 1648 in art.

• Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture founded in Paris.^[1]
• Carlo Ridolfi publishes a biography of Titian and other Venetian artists, Le maraviglie dell'Arte ovvero, Le vite degli Illustri Pittori Veneti e dello Stato.

• Claude Lorrain
  • Seaport with The Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
  • Landscape with Dancing Figures (The Mill)
  • Landscape with Paris and Oenone
  • Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah
• Peter Lely - Portrait of Charles I of England and the Duke of York
• Nicolas Poussin
  • The Funeral of Phocion^[2]
  • The Holy Family on the Steps
  • Landscape with the Ashes of Phocion^[3]
  • Rembrandt- Supper at Emmus
  • Seven Sacraments, Second series (completed)
• Rembrandt-Supper at Emmus
• Gerard ter Borch - The Ratification of the Treaty of Münster, 15 May 1648
• Bartholomeus van der Helst - Banquet of the Amsterdam Civic Guard in Celebration of the Peace of Münster

• March 31 - Sebastiaen van Aken, Flemish historical painter (died 1722)
• April 4 - Grinling Gibbons, English master wood carver (died 1721)
• May 23 - Johan Teyler, Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver (died 1709)
• August 22 - Gerard Hoet, Dutch Golden Age painter (died 1733)
• October 29 - John Verelst, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (died 1734)
• date unknown
  • Giovanni Raffaele Badaracco, Italian painter (died 1726)
  • Ambrogio Besozzi, Italian painter (died 1706)
  • Bartolomeo Bimbi, Florentine painter of still lifes (died 1723)
  • Gabriel de la Corte, Spanish painter (died 1694)
  • Marcantonio Franceschini, Italian painter of religious and mythological subjects (died 1729)
  • Jean Mauger, French medallist (died 1712)
  • Johannes Skraastad, woodcarver (died 1700)
• probable - Paul Strudel, Austrian sculptor, architect, engineer, and painter (died 1708)

• February - Lawrence Hilliard, English miniature painter (born 1582)
• May 25 - Antioine Le Nain, French painter of the Le Nain family of painters (born 1599)
• October 15 - Simone Cantarini, Italian painter and etcher of the Bolognese School of painting (born 1612)
• December - Peter Oliver, English miniaturist (born 1594)
• December 18 - Hendrick Goudt, Dutch painter (born 1583)
• date unknown
  • Francisco Agullo, Spanish painter (born unknown)
  • Cesare Bassano, Italian painter and engraver (born 1584)
  • Antonio de Puga, Spanish Baroque painter (born 1602)
  • Zacharias Paulusz, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (born 1580)
  • Andries Jacobsz Stock, Flemish engraver, printmaker and illustrator (born 1580)
  • Jacob van Geel, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1585)
  • Diego Vidal de Liendo, Spanish painter (born 1622)