1754 in art
Events from the year 1754 in art.
Events
- Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce founded in England by William Shipley.
- Joshua Kirby publishes the pamphlet Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy both in Theory and Practice in London, containing William Hogarth's Satire on False Perspective.
Paintings
- Canaletto
- * English Landscape Capriccio with a Column
- * English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace
- * Eton College
- * Interior of the Rotunda at Ranelagh
- * Old Walton Bridge
- * St. Paul's Cathedral
- John Giles Eccardt – Horace Walpole
- William Hogarth – Humours of an Election
- Claude-Joseph Vernet
- * Interior of the Port of Marseille
- * A Storm with a Shipwreck
- Richard Wilson – ''Rome from the Ponte Molle''
Births
- February 5 – Gilles-Louis Chrétien, French musician and creator of the physionotrace used for portraits
- April 12 – Peter Haas, German-Danish engraver
- May 8 – Amos Doolittle, American engraver
- May 10 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German neoclassical artist
- May 17 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer
- May 26 – Jean-Louis Anselin, French engraver
- May 31 – Andrea Appiani, Milanese neoclassical painter
- August 2 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect and artist
- October 2 – Françoise-Jeanne Ridderbosch, Belgian painter and engraver
- October 9 – Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French painter
- October 29 – Claude Ramey, French sculptor
- December 20 – Francesco Manno, Italian painter and architect date unknown
- * Kim Deuk-sin, Korean painter, official painter of the Joseon court
- * John Graham, Scottish painter and teacher of art
- * Emanuel Granberg, Finnish painter
- * Charles Grignion the Younger, British history and portrait painter and engraver
- * Ivan Martos, Russian-Ukrainian sculptor and art teacher
- * Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, Austrian-born French porcelain manufacturer
- * Victor-Jean Nicolle, French landscape and architecture painter
- * Marie-Elisabeth Simons, Belgian painter
- * Paul Theodor van Brussel, Dutch flower painter
- * Arend Johan van Glinstra, Dutch painter
Deaths
- April 28
- * Roland Paradis, French silversmith working in New France
- * Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian rococo painter
- May 2 – Thomas Restout, French painter
- May 5 – Giovan Battista Caniana, Italian sculptor and architect
- June 25 - Pierre-Jacques Cazes, French historical painter
- July 5 - Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, French line-engraver
- October 22 – Peter von Bemmel, German landscape painter and etcher
- December 1 – Jean-Joseph Vinache, French sculptor date unknown
- * Fedor Leontyevich Argunov, Russian painter
- * Giovanni Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period