1551 in art

Events from the year 1551 in art.

Events

 * Cristóvão Lopes succeeds his father Gregório Lopes as the royal painter of King John III of Portugal

Paintings

 * Pieter Aertsen – A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms
 * Pietro Negroni – Madonna with Child in Glory and Saints Paul and Luke
 * Titian – Philip II in Armour
 * Caterina van Hemessen – Portrait of a Lady (approximate date; Bowes Museum)

Births

 * March 9 - Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter (died 1596)
 * April 30 - Jacopo da Empoli, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1640)
 * Luigi Benfatto, Italian painter, nephew of Paolo Veronese (died 1611)
 * Jacopo Chimenti, Italian late-mannerist painter (died 1640)
 * Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter, in 1571 a student in the Bolognese painters’ guild (died 1629)
 * Tiburzio Vergelli, Italian sculptor and founder (died 1609)
 * probable
 * 1551/1552: John de Critz, Flemish portrait painter active in England (died 1642)

Deaths

 * May 18 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (born 1486)
 * July - Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (born 1480-1490)
 * July 11 - Girolamo Genga, Italian painter and architect (born 1476)
 * date unknown
 * Diego de Arroyo, Spanish miniature painter (born 1498)
 * Nicolas Chantereine, French sculptor and architect (born c.1485)
 * Étienne Peson, French "primitive" painter (born 1485)
 * Shin Saimdang, Korean genre works painter and calligraphist (born 1504)
 * Juan de Villoldo, Spanish religious painter (date of birth unknown)