1543 in art

Works

• Benvenuto Cellini sculpts the Cellini Salt Cellar for Francis I of France

Paintings

• Hans Holbein the Younger – Portrait of John Chambers
• Lucas Horenbout – Portrait miniature of Hans Holbein the Younger
• Lorenzo Lotto – Husband and Wife
• Master IW - The murder of St. Wenceslas at St Vitus Cathedral, Prague
• Titian - ''Ecce Homo''

Births

• February 16 - Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter of the Azuchi-Momoyama period, patriarchs of the Kanō school of Japanese painting
• date unknown
• *Alessandro Fei, Italian painter who primarily worked in a Mannerist style
• *Quentin Metsys the Younger, Flemish painter at the court of Queen Elizabeth I of England
• probable - François Quesnel, French painter of Scottish extraction

Deaths

• October/November - Hans Holbein the Younger, German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style
• November 30 - Francesco Granacci, Italian painter
• date unknown
• *Polidoro da Caravaggio, Italian painter
• *Altobello Melone, Italian painter