# 1753 in art

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 – Richard Bentley
* Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid
* Thomas Gainsborough
** Couple in a Landscape
** Portrait of Edward Vernon
* Gavin Hamilton – Portrait of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton, commissioned by James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton (c. 1752-1753)
* Gustaf Lundberg – Portrait of Carl Linnaeus (Linné)
* Jean-Baptiste Oudry – The White Duck
* Joshua Reynolds – Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
* Johann Heinrich Tischbein – Self-Portrait in Venetian Masquerade Costume
* Marcos Zapata – The Last Supper (Cathedral of Santo Domingo, Cusco)

## Births

* February 2 – Giacomo Raffaelli, Italian mosaicist from Rome (died 1836)
* February 24 – Henri-Pierre Danloux, French painter (died 1809)
* April 15 – Robert Smirke, English painter (died 1845)
* May 1 – Joseph Bergler the Younger, painter and etcher (died 1829)
* May 12 – Agustín Esteve, Spanish portraitist and court painter to the Spanish Crown (died 1830)
* August 12 – Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (died 1828)
* September 10 – Sir John Soane, British architect (died 1837)
* October 12 – Lié Louis Périn-Salbreux, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (died 1817)
* November – Sir Francis Bourgeois, court painter to King George III (died 1811)
* November 6 – Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian Neoclassical sculptor active during the Age of Enlightenment (died 1802)
* November 14 – Francis Nicholson, landscape painter (died 1844)
* December 12 – Sir William Beechey, portrait painter (died 1839)
* date unknown
** Joseph Barney, English painter (died 1832)
** Pierre Chasselat, French miniature painter (died 1814)
** Francisco Agustín 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 – Lars Gallenius, Finnish painter (born 1658)
* July 8 – Federiko Benković, Croatian painter (born 1667)
* August 5 – Johann Gottfried Auerbach, Austrian painter (born 1697)
* September 16 – Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, painter and architect in Prussia (born 1699)
* September 18 – Hristofor Zhefarovich is best remembered as a painter, engraver and writer working in Belgrade (born 1699)
* November – Giuseppe Valentini, Italian violinist, painter, poet and composer (born 1681)
* December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (born 1694)
* December 18 – Miyagawa Chōshun, 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 – Angelo Trevisani, Italian painter, active mainly in Venice (born 1669)