1755 in art
Events from the year 1755 in art.
Events
- Canaletto returns from England to Venice, where he continues painting until his death in 1768.
- 25 August – The Salon of 1755 opens at the Louvre in Paris
Paintings
- François Boucher – Landscape with a Watermill
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Musical Contest
- William Hogarth – Sealing the Tomb
- John Shackleton – ''George II''
Births
- January 30 - Richard Collins, English chief miniature and enamel painter to George III
- February - Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer
- February 6 – Henry Bone, English enamel painter
- February 13 - Philibert-Louis Debucourt, French painter and engraver
- April 9 - William Birch, English miniature painter and engraver
- April 16 – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter
- July 6 – John Flaxman, sculptor
- July 14 - Charles-Antoine Clevenbergh, Flemish painter of still-life
- August 4 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, painter and inventor of the pencil
- August 17 – Thomas Stothard, English painter and engraver
- September 8 - Petrus Johannes van Regemorter, Flemish landscape and genre painter
- November 16 - Marie Jeanne Clemens, Danish engraver and painter, member of Danish Academy of Fine Arts
- December 3 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter
- December 4 – Franz Caucig, Slovene painter and drawer date unknown
- * Prince Hoare, English painter and dramatist
- * Philip Jean, English miniaturist painter
- * Luigi Mayer, Italian-German painter
- * Filippo Pennino, Italian sculptor
Deaths
- March 6 – Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome
- April 30 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French Rococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer
- May 23 - Juan Antonio García de Bouzas, Spanish painter
- May 25 – Gustavus Hesselius, Swedish-American painter date unknown
- * Pietro Anderlini, Italian painter of the Rococo period
- * Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu
- * Jean-Louis Lemoyne, French sculptor
- * Giovanni Agostino Ratti, Italian cabinet painter, engraver, and constructed scenography
- * Odoardo Vicinelli, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period probable – Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, painter of Italian or Lombard heritage