1755 in art

• 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==

, The Musical Contest • François Boucher – Landscape with a Watermill • Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Musical Contest • William Hogarth – Sealing the Tomb • John Shackleton – George II (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh) ==Births==

• January 30 - Richard Collins, English chief miniature and enamel painter to George III (died 1831) • February - Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (died 1822) • February 6 – Henry Bone, English enamel painter (died 1834) • February 13 - Philibert-Louis Debucourt, French painter and engraver (died 1832) • April 9 - William Birch, English miniature painter and engraver (died 1834) • April 16 – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter (died 1842) • July 6 – John Flaxman, sculptor (died 1826) • July 14 - Charles-Antoine Clevenbergh, Flemish painter of still-life (died 1810) • August 4 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, painter and inventor of the pencil (died 1805) • August 17 – Thomas Stothard, English painter and engraver (died 1834) • September 8 - Petrus Johannes van Regemorter, Flemish landscape and genre painter (died 1830) • November 16 - Marie Jeanne Clemens, Danish engraver and painter, member of Danish Academy of Fine Arts (died 1791) • December 3 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter (died 1828) • December 4 – Franz Caucig, Slovene painter and drawer (died 1828) • date unknown • Prince Hoare, English painter and dramatist (died 1834) • Philip Jean, English miniaturist painter (died 1802) • Luigi Mayer, Italian-German painter (died 1803) • Filippo Pennino, Italian sculptor (died 1801) ==Deaths==

• March 6 – 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 23 - Juan Antonio García de Bouzas, Spanish painter (born 1680) • May 25 – Gustavus Hesselius, Swedish-American painter (born 1682) • date unknown • Pietro Anderlini, Italian painter of the Rococo period (born 1687) • 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) • probable (died 1755/1759) – Giuseppe Antonio Petrini, painter of Italian or Lombard heritage (born 1677) ==References==