Events from the year 1673 in art.

• Engraver Michael Vandergucht joins the Guild of St Luke at Antwerp.

• Ludolf Bakhuizen – The Y at Amsterdam, seen from the mussel pier
• Henri Gascar – Portrait of James, Duke of York
• John Greenhill – Portrait of Seth Ward (bishop of Salisbury)
• Charles Le Brun – Alexander and Porus

• January 28 - Georg Gsell, Swiss painter (died 1740)
• April - Maria Moninckx, Dutch botanical artist and painter (died 1757)
• April 28 - Claude Gillot, French painter, engraver, book illustrator, metal worker, and theatrical designer (died 1722)
• June 11 – Bernard Picart, French engraver (died 1733)
• date unknown
  • Thomas Germain, silversmith (died 1748)
  • Ádám Mányoki, Hungarian painter (died 1757)
  • Giovanni Battista Lama, Italian painter, active mainly in Naples (died 1748)
  • Giuseppe Melani, Italian painter, active mainly in Pisa (died 1747)
  • Pietro Paltronieri, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1741)
• probable – Andrea dell'Asta, Italian painter (died 1721)

• March - Isaack Luttichuys, Dutch Golden Age portrait painter (born 1616)
• March 15 – Salvator Rosa, Italian Baroque painter, poet and printmaker (born 1615)
• September 6 – Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Flemish painter and engraver (born 1617)
• October – Barent Fabritius, Dutch painter (born 1624)
• November 27 – Anthonie Palamedesz., Dutch painter (born 1602)
• date unknown
  • Carlo Cornara, Italian painter born in Milan (born 1605)
  • Anthonie de Lorme, Dutch painter (born 1610)
  • Francesco Grue, Italian potter and painter (born 1618)
  • Ingen, Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher (born 1592)
  • Jochim Neiman, German-born traveling painter who primarily worked in Finland (born 1600)
  • Mario Nuzzi, Italian painter specializing in still life painting of flower arrangements (born 1603)
  • Giovanni Quagliata, Italian painter of frescos and large canvases depicting historical and religious subjects (born 1603)
  • Xiao Yuncong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet in the late Ming Dynasty (born 1596)