1745 in art

Events

• Hieronimo Miani completes the decoration of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen.

Works

• Andien de Clermont – Monkey Room ceiling, Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire, England
• William Hogarth
• *Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin
• *David Garrick as Richard III
• Allan Ramsay – Lost [portrait of Charles Edward Stuart]
• Richard Wilson – ''The Cock Tavern at Cheam''

Births

• February 2 – John Nichols (printer), English printer and author
• March 5 – Christina Elisabeth Carowsky, Swedish portrait painter
• March 29 – John Russell, English portrait painter
• May 5 – Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish naval officer, painter, author and neo-classical architect
• May 12 – Jens Juel, Danish portrait painter
• June 16 – Sigmund Freudenberger, Swiss painter
• June 26 – Nils Schillmark, Swedish-born painter who lived and worked in Finland
• July 6 – Jean-Joseph Taillasson, French painter
• August 3 – Domenico Pozzi, Swiss painter
• October 6 – Franciszek Smuglewicz, Polish draughtsman and painter date unknown
• * Luigi Acquisti, Italian sculptor mainly known for his works in the neoclassical style
• * Pyotr Drozhdin, Russian painter]
• * Anne Forbes, Scottish portrait painter
• * Gim Hongdo, Korean painter of the late Joseon period
• * Anton Hickel, Czech painter
• * Yi In-mun, Korean court painter of the late Joseon Dynasty, primarily of landscapes
• * Francis Jukes, English etcher, engraver and publisher
• * Pierre Lacour, French painter
• * Wincenty de Lesseur, Polish portrait painter
• * Uragami Gyokudo, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher
• * 1745/1749: Gottlieb Welté, German etcher and landscape painter

Deaths

• February 23 – Joseph Effner, German architect and interior decorator
• May 28 – Jonathan Richardson, English portrait painter, writer on art and collector
• June 13 – Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian painter, sculptor and architect
• June 28 – Giovanni Maria delle Piane, court painter
• September 14 – Martino Altomonte, Italian fresco painter
• December 19 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Dutch painter
• date unknown
• *Pietro Giovanni Abbati, Italian set designer, painter and engraver
• *Claude Du Bosc, French engraver
• *Mehmet Emin Tokadi, Ottoman Sufi saint, writer, calligrapher, and scholar
• *Willem Van der Hagen, Dutch painter who settled in Ireland, founder of the Irish school of landscape painting
• probable – Johan Richter, painter of landscapes or vedute of Venice