Events from the year 1754 in art.

• Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce founded in England by William Shipley.
• Joshua Kirby publishes the pamphlet Dr. Brook Taylor's Method of Perspective made Easy both in Theory and Practice in London, containing William Hogarth's Satire on False Perspective.

• Canaletto
  • English Landscape Capriccio with a Column (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
  • English Landscape Capriccio with a Palace (National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.)
  • Eton College (National Gallery, London)
  • London: Interior of the Rotunda at Ranelagh (National Gallery, London)
  • Old Walton Bridge (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London)
  • St. Paul's Cathedral (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut)
• John Giles Eccardt – Horace Walpole
• William Hogarth – Humours of an Election (four paintings)

• February 5 – Gilles-Louis Chrétien, French musician and creator of the physionotrace used for portraits (died 1811)
• April 12 – Peter Haas, German-Danish engraver (died 1804)
• May 8 – Amos Doolittle, American engraver (died 1832)
• May 10 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German neoclassical artist (died 1798)
• May 17 – Antoine Berjon, French painter and designer (died 1843)
• May 26 – Jean-Louis Anselin, French engraver (died 1823)
• May 31 – Andrea Appiani, Milanese neoclassical painter (died 1817)
• August 2 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect and artist (died 1825)
• October 2 – Françoise-Jeanne Ridderbosch, Belgian painter and engraver (died 1837)
• October 9 – Jean-Baptiste Regnault, French painter (died 1829)
• October 29 – Claude Ramey, French sculptor (died 1838)
• December 20 – Francesco Manno, Italian painter and architect (died 1831)
• date unknown
  • Kim Deuk-sin, Korean painter, official painter of the Joseon court (died 1822)
  • John Graham, Scottish painter and teacher of art (died 1817)
  • Emanuel Granberg, Finnish painter (died 1797)
  • Charles Grignion the Younger, British history and portrait painter and engraver (died 1804)
  • Ivan Martos, Russian-Ukrainian sculptor and art teacher (died 1835)
  • Jean Népomucène Hermann Nast, Austrian-born French porcelain manufacturer (died 1817)
  • Victor-Jean Nicolle, French landscape and architecture painter (died 1824)
  • Marie-Elisabeth Simons, Belgian painter (died 1774)
  • Paul Theodor van Brussel, Dutch flower painter (died 1795)
  • Arend Johan van Glinstra, Dutch painter (died 1814)

• April 28
  • Roland Paradis, French silversmith working in New France (born 1696)
  • Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian rococo painter (born 1682)
• May 2 – Thomas Restout, French painter (born 1671)
• May 5 – Giovan Battista Caniana, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1671)
• June 25 - Pierre-Jacques Cazes, French historical painter (born 1676)
• July 5 – Charles-Nicolas Cochin the Elder, French line-engraver (born 1688)
• October 22 – Peter von Bemmel, German landscape painter and etcher (born 1686)
• December 1 – Jean-Joseph Vinache, French sculptor (born 1696)
• date unknown
  • Fedor Leontyevich Argunov, Russian painter (born 1716)
  • Giovanni Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (born 1674)