1753 in art
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Events from the year 1753 in art.
Events
- Jean-Baptiste Perronneau becomes a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.
Paintings

- John Giles Eccardt â Richard Bentley
- Jean-Honoré Fragonard â Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Gavin Hamilton â Portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton, commissioned by James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (c. 1752-1753)
- Gustaf Lundberg â Portrait of Carl Linnaeus (Linné)
- Jean-Baptiste Oudry â The White Duck
- Joshua Reynolds â Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
- Johann Heinrich Tischbein â Self-Portrait in Venetian Masquerade Costume
- Marcos Zapata â The Last Supper (Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Cusco)
Births
- February 2 â Giacomo Raffaelli, Italian mosaicist from Rome (died 1836)
- February 24 â Henri-Pierre Danloux, French painter (died 1809)
- April 15 â Robert Smirke, English painter (died 1845)
- May 1 â Joseph Bergler the Younger, painter and etcher (died 1829)
- May 12 â AgustÃn Esteve, Spanish portraitist and court painter to the Spanish Crown (died 1830)
- August 12 â Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (died 1828)
- September 10 â Sir John Soane, British architect (died 1837)
- October 12 â Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (died 1817)
- November â Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III (died 1811)
- November 6 â Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian Neoclassical sculptor active during the Age of Enlightenment (died 1802)
- November 14 â Francis Nicholson, landscape painter (died 1844)
- December 12 â Sir William Beechey, portrait painter (died 1839)
- date unknown
- Joseph Barney, English painter (died 1832)
- Pierre Chasselat, French miniature painter (died 1814)
- Francisco AgustÃn y Grande, Spanish painter of the Neoclassic style (died 1800)
- probable
- Fyodor Alekseyev, Russian painter of landscape art (died 1824)
- Utamaro, Japanese printmaker and painter, especially of woodblock prints (ukiyo-e) (died 1806)
Deaths
- January 9 â Lars Gallenius, Finnish painter (born 1658)
- July 8 â Federiko BenkoviÄ, Croatian painter (born 1667)
- August 5 â Johann Gottfried Auerbach, Austrian painter (born 1697)
- September 16 â Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, painter and architect in Prussia (born 1699)
- September 18 â Hristofor Zhefarovich is best remembered as a painter, engraver and writer working in Belgrade (born 1699)
- November â Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet and composer (born 1681)
- December 15 â Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (born 1694)
- December 18 â Miyagawa ChÅshun, Japanese painter in the ukiyo-e style (born 1683)
- date unknown
- Gao Xiang, Qing Chinese painter, and one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou (born 1688)
- André Jean, French artist (born 1662)
- Francesco Polazzo, Italian painter of portraits and historical subjects (born 1683)
- Miguel Posadas, Spanish painter (born 1711)
- Candido Vitali, Italian painter of still life of animals, birds, flower, and fruit (born 1680)
- probable â Angelo Trevisani, Italian painter, active mainly in Venice (born 1669)