1753 in art

Events from the year 1753 in art.

Events

 * Jean-Baptiste Perronneau becomes a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.

Paintings

 * John Giles Eccardt – Richard Bentley
 * Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid
 * Thomas Gainsborough – Couple in a Landscape
 * Gavin Hamilton – Portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton, commissioned by James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (c. 1752-1753)
 * Gustaf Lundberg – Portrait of Carl Linnaeus (Linné)
 * Jean-Baptiste Oudry – The White Duck
 * Joshua Reynolds – Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
 * Johann Heinrich Tischbein – Self-Portrait in Venetian Masquerade Costume
 * Marcos Zapata – The Last Supper (Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Cusco)

Births

 * February 2 – Giacomo Raffaelli, Italian mosaicist from Rome (died 1836)
 * February 24 – Henri-Pierre Danloux, French painter (died 1809)
 * April 15 – Robert Smirke, English painter (died 1845)
 * May 1 – Joseph Bergler the Younger, painter and etcher (died 1829)
 * May 12 – Agustín Esteve, Spanish portraitist and court painter to the Spanish Crown (died 1830)
 * August 12 – Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (died 1828)
 * September 10 – Sir John Soane, British architect (died 1837)
 * October 12 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (died 1817)
 * November – Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III (died 1811)
 * November 6 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian Neoclassical sculptor active during the Age of Enlightenment (died 1802)
 * November 14 – Francis Nicholson, landscape painter (died 1844)
 * December 12 – Sir William Beechey, portrait painter (died 1839)
 * date unknown
 * Joseph Barney, English painter (died 1832)
 * Pierre Chasselat, French miniature painter (died 1814)
 * Francisco Agustín y Grande, Spanish painter of the Neoclassic style (died 1800)
 * probable
 * Fyodor Alekseyev, Russian painter of landscape art (died 1824)
 * Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) (died 1806)

Deaths

 * January 9 – Lars Gallenius, Finnish painter (born 1658)
 * July 8 – Federiko Benković, Croatian painter (born 1667)
 * August 5 – Johann Gottfried Auerbach, Austrian painter (born 1697)
 * September 16 – Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, painter and architect in Prussia (born 1699)
 * September 18 – Hristofor Zhefarovich is best remembered as a painter, engraver and writer working in Belgrade (born 1699)
 * November – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet and composer (born 1681)
 * December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (born 1694)
 * December 18 – Miyagawa Chōshun, Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style (born 1683)
 * date unknown
 * Gao Xiang, Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (born 1688)
 * André Jean, French artist (born 1662)
 * Francesco Polazzo, Italian painter of portraits and historical subjects (born 1683)
 * Miguel Posadas, Spanish painter (born 1711)
 * Candido Vitali, Italian painter of still life of animals, birds, flower, and fruit (born 1680)
 * probable – Angelo Trevisani, Italian painter, active mainly in Venice (born 1669)