1554 in art

Events from the year 1554 in art.

Events

 * Gerlach Flicke, temporarily imprisoned in London with pirate Henry Strangways, paints a diptych of them both, which constitutes the earliest known self-portrait in oils in England.
 * A group of Edinburgh painters, led by one Walter Binning, assault an outsider, David Warkman, who has been painting a ceiling in the city.

Paintings

 * Hans Eworth – Queen Mary Tudor
 * Gerlach Flicke – Self-portrait with Henry Strangwish
 * Antonis Mor – Queen Mary Tudor
 * Titian – Danae and Christ Appearing to his Mother after his Resurrection

Sculptures

 * Benvenuto Cellini – Perseus with the Head of Medusa

Births

 * February 27 - Giovanni Battista Paggi, Italian painter (died 1627)
 * date unknown
 * Paul Brill, landscape painter of frescoes who worked in Rome (died 1626)
 * Cesare Corte, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Genoa (died 1613)
 * Augustin Cranach, German painter, son of Lucas Cranach the Younger (died 1595)
 * Costantini de' Servi, Italian painter (died 1622)
 * Mir Emad Hassani, Persian Nastaʿlīq script calligrapher (died 1615)
 * Rombertus van Uylenburgh, father-in-law of Rembrandt (died 1624)
 * probable - William Segar, court painter to Queen Elizabeth I of England (died 1633)

Deaths

 * April - Simone Mosca, Italian sculptor (born 1492)
 * December 22 - Moretto da Brescia, Italian Renaissance painter of Brescia and Venice (born 1498)
 * date unknown
 * Giovanni Francesco Rustici, Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor (born 1474)
 * Anthony Toto, Italian painter and architect (born 1498)
 * probable
 * Michelangelo Anselmi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter active mostly in Parma (born 1492)
 * Hans Brosamer, German engraver, wood-cutter, and portraitist (born 1506)