1744 in art

Events from the year 1744 in art.

Works

 * Bernardo Bellotto – Vaprio d'Adda (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
 * Canaletto (British Royal Collection)
 * Entrance to the Grand Canal, looking east
 * Piazza S. Marco, looking south
 * Piazza S. Marco, looking west
 * Charles-Michel-Ange Challe – Sleeping Diana
 * Georg Desmarées – Portrait of Franz Joachim Beich
 * Thomas Hudson – Portrait of King George II
 * Jean-Étienne Liotard – The Chocolate Girl (approximate date)
 * Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
 * The Banquet of Cleopatra (National Gallery of Victoria)
 * Ceiling paintings in Würzburg Residence
 * Translation of the House of Loreto (frescos in Church of the Scalzi (Venice); destroyed 1915 (approximate completion date))
 * Decorations for Villa Cordellini (Montecchio Maggiore)
 * Christian Friedrich Zincke – Miniature portrait of Sir Robert Walpole in Garter robes

Births

 * February 13 – David Allan, Scottish painter (died 1796)
 * July 9 – François-Guillaume Ménageot, French painter of religious and French historical scenes (died 1816)
 * October 27 – Mary Moser, English painter primarily of flowers (died 1819)
 * October 25 – Daniel Berger, German engraver (died 1825)
 * October 28 – William Hodges, English landscape painter (died 1797)
 * December 10
 * William Berczy, Canadian pioneer and painter (died 1813)
 * Thomas Parkinson, British portrait painter (died 1789)
 * December 15 – Jean-François Pierre Peyron, French neoclassical painter (died 1814)
 * December 21 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (died 1818)
 * date unknown
 * Manuel Acevedo, Spanish painter (died 1800)
 * Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver and teacher (died 1819)
 * Okada Beisanjin – Japanese painter (died 1820)
 * Hendrik de Meijer, Dutch painter (died 1793)
 * János Donát, Hungarian painter (died 1830)
 * Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher (died 1820)
 * Gabriel Gotthard Sweidel, Finnish church painter (died 1813)

Deaths

 * January 18 – Michele Marieschi, Italian painter of landscapes or vistas (a vedutisti) (born 1710)
 * January 22 – Pierre Lepautre, French sculptor (born 1659)
 * February 13 – Pierre Gobert, French painter (born 1662)
 * February 17 – René Frémin, French sculptor (born 1672)
 * March 9 – Giuseppe Zola, Italian painter of landscapes with small figures (born 1675)
 * June 7 – Pietro Ercole Fava, Italian nobleman and art patron (born 1669)
 * July 28 – Lorenzo De Ferrari, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1680)
 * October – Domenico Maria Muratori, Bolognese (Italian) painter, studied under Lorenzo Pasinelli at Bologna (born 1661), painted La mort de Cléopâtre in the Louvre
 * date unknown
 * Charles Collins, Irish painter primarily of animals and still-life (born 1680)
 * Marcantonio Riverditi – Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces (born unknown)
 * Maria Verelst, Dutch miniature and portrait painter (born 1680)