1753 in art

Events

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

Paintings

• John Giles Eccardt – '
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid
• Thomas Gainsborough
• * '
• * Portrait of Edward Vernon
• Gavin Hamilton – Portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton, commissioned by James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton
• Gustaf Lundberg – Portrait of Carl Linnaeus
• Jean-Baptiste Oudry – The White Duck
• Joshua Reynolds – Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel
• Johann Heinrich Tischbein – Self-Portrait in Venetian Masquerade Costume
• Marcos Zapata – ''The Last Supper''

Births

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

Deaths

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