1755 in art

Events

• Canaletto returns from England to Venice, where he continues painting until his death in 1768.

Paintings

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Musical Contest, 1754-1755

• Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Musical Contest

Births

• April 16 – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842)
• July 6 – John Flaxman, sculptor (died 1826)
• August 4 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, painter and inventor of the pencil (died 1805)
• August 17 – Thomas Stothard, English painter and engraver (died 1834)
• December 3 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter (died 1828)
• date unknown
  • Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (died 1822)
  • Prince Hoare, English painter and dramatist (died 1834)
  • Philip Jean, English miniaturist painter (died 1802)
  • Marie Jeanne Clemens, Danish engraver and painter, member of Danish Academy of Fine Arts (died 1791)

Deaths

• March – Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome (born 1674)
• April 30 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French Rococo painter, engraver and tapestry designer (born 1686)
• May 25 – Gustavus Hesselius, Swedish-American painter (born 1682)
• date unknown
  • Li Fangying, Chinese painter from Jiangsu (born 1696)
  • Jean-Louis Lemoyne, French sculptor (born 1665)
  • Giovanni Agostino Ratti, Italian cabinet painter, engraver, and constructed scenography (born 1699)
  • Odoardo Vicinelli, Italian painter of the late-Baroque period (born 1684)
  • (died 1755/1759): Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, painter of Italian or Lombard heritage (born 1677)