1753 in art

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)

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)

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