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.

Works

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
• date unknown
• *Paul Brill, landscape painter of frescoes who worked in Rome
• *Cesare Corte, Italian painter active mainly in his natal city of Genoa
• *Augustin Cranach, German painter, son of Lucas Cranach the Younger
• *Costantini de' Servi, Italian painter
• *Mir Emad Hassani, Persian Nastaʿlīq script calligrapher
• *Rombertus van Uylenburgh, father-in-law of Rembrandt
• probable - William Segar, court painter to Queen Elizabeth I of England

Deaths

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