1745 in art

• Hieronimo Miani completes the decoration of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen. – David Garrick as Richard III – The lost portrait of Charles Edward Stuart ==Works==

• Andien de Clermont – Monkey Room ceiling, Kirtlington Park, Oxfordshire, England • William Hogarth • Captain Lord George Graham in his Cabin • David Garrick as Richard III • Allan Ramsay – Lost portrait of Charles Edward Stuart • Richard Wilson – The Cock Tavern at Cheam ==Births==

• February 2 – John Nichols (printer), English printer and author (died 1826) • March 5 – Christina Elisabeth Carowsky, Swedish portrait painter (died 1797) • March 29 – John Russell, English portrait painter (died 1806) • May 5 – Carl August Ehrensvärd, Swedish naval officer, painter, author and neo-classical architect (died 1800) • May 12 – Jens Juel, Danish portrait painter (died 1802) • June 16 – Sigmund Freudenberger, Swiss painter (died 1801) • June 26 – Nils Schillmark, Swedish-born painter who lived and worked in Finland (died 1804) • July 6 – Jean-Joseph Taillasson, French painter (died 1809) • August 3 – Domenico Pozzi, Swiss painter (died 1796) • October 6 – Franciszek Smuglewicz, Polish draughtsman and painter (died 1807) • date unknown • Luigi Acquisti, Italian sculptor mainly known for his works in the neoclassical style (died 1823) • Pyotr Drozhdin, Russian painter] (died 1805) • Anne Forbes, Scottish portrait painter (died 1834) • Gim Hongdo, Korean painter of the late Joseon period (died 1806) • Anton Hickel, Czech painter (died 1798) • Yi In-mun, Korean court painter of the late Joseon Dynasty, primarily of landscapes (died 1821) • Francis Jukes, English etcher, engraver and publisher (died 1812) • Pierre Lacour, French painter (died 1814) • Wincenty de Lesseur, Polish portrait painter (died 1813) • Uragami Gyokudo, Japanese musician, painter, poet and calligrapher (died 1820) • 1745/1749: Gottlieb Welté, German etcher and landscape painter (died 1792) ==Deaths==

• February 23 – Joseph Effner, German architect and interior decorator (born 1687) • May 28 – Jonathan Richardson, English portrait painter, writer on art and collector (born 1667) • June 13 – Domenico Antonio Vaccaro, Italian painter, sculptor and architect (born 1678) • June 28 – Giovanni Maria delle Piane, court painter (born 1660) • September 14 – Martino Altomonte, Italian fresco painter (born 1657) • December 19 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Dutch painter (born 1684) • date unknown • Pietro Giovanni Abbati, Italian set designer, painter and engraver (born 1683) • Claude Du Bosc, French engraver (born 1682) • Mehmet Emin Tokadi, Ottoman Sufi saint, writer, calligrapher, and scholar (born 1664) • Willem Van der Hagen, Dutch painter who settled in Ireland, founder of the Irish school of landscape painting (born unknown) • probable – Johan Richter, painter of landscapes or vedute of Venice (born 1665)