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''

Births

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

Deaths

• May 18 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter
• July - Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter
• July 11 - Girolamo Genga, Italian painter and architect
• date unknown
• *Diego de Arroyo, Spanish miniature painter
• *Nicolas Chantereine, French sculptor and architect
• *Étienne Peson, French "primitive" painter
• *Shin Saimdang, Korean genre works painter and calligraphist
• *Juan de Villoldo, Spanish religious painter