Events from the year 1744 in art.

• Bernardo Bellotto – Vaprio d'Adda^[1] (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
• Canaletto (British Royal Collection)
  • Entrance to the Grand Canal, looking east
  • Piazza S. Marco, looking south
  • Piazza S. Marco, looking west
• Charles-Michel-Ange Challe – Sleeping Diana
• Georg Desmarées – Portrait of Franz Joachim Beich
• Thomas Hudson – Portrait of George II
• Jean-Étienne Liotard – The Chocolate Girl (approximate date)
• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
  • The Banquet of Cleopatra (National Gallery of Victoria)
  • Ceiling paintings in Würzburg Residence
  • Translation of the House of Loreto (frescos in Church of the Scalzi (Venice); destroyed 1915 (approximate completion date))
  • Decorations for Villa Cordellini (Montecchio Maggiore)
• Christian Friedrich Zincke – Miniature portrait of Sir Robert Walpole in Garter robes

• February 13 – David Allan, Scottish painter (died 1796)
• July 9 – François-Guillaume Ménageot, French painter of religious and French historical scenes (died 1816)
• October 27 – Mary Moser, English painter primarily of flowers (died 1819)
• October 25 – Daniel Berger, German engraver (died 1825)
• October 28 – William Hodges, English landscape painter (died 1797)
• December 10
  • William Berczy, Canadian pioneer and painter (died 1813)
  • Thomas Parkinson, British portrait painter (died 1789)
• December 15 – Jean-François Pierre Peyron, French neoclassical painter (died 1814)
• December 21 – Anne Vallayer-Coster, French painter (died 1818)
• date unknown
  • Manuel Acevedo, Spanish painter (died 1800)
  • Prosper-Gabriel Audran, French engraver and teacher (died 1819)
  • Okada Beisanjin – Japanese painter (died 1820)
  • Hendrik de Meijer, Dutch painter (died 1793)
  • János Donát, Hungarian painter (died 1830)
  • Hermanus Numan, Dutch artist, art theorist, and publisher (died 1820)
  • Gabriel Gotthard Sweidel, Finnish church painter (died 1813)

• January 18 – Michele Marieschi, Italian painter of landscapes or vistas (a vedutisti) (born 1710)
• January 22 – Pierre Lepautre, French sculptor (born 1659)
• February 13 – Pierre Gobert, French painter (born 1662)
• February 17 – René Frémin, French sculptor (born 1672)
• March 9 – Giuseppe Zola, Italian painter of landscapes with small figures (born 1675)
• June 7 – Pietro Ercole Fava, Italian nobleman and art patron (born 1669)
• July 28 – Lorenzo De Ferrari, Italian painter of the Baroque period (born 1680)
• October – Domenico Maria Muratori, Bolognese (Italian) painter, studied under Lorenzo Pasinelli at Bologna (born 1661), painted La mort de Cléopâtre in the Louvre
• date unknown
  • Charles Collins, Irish painter primarily of animals and still-life (born 1680)
  • Marcantonio Riverditi – Italian painter of portraits and altarpieces (born unknown)
  • Maria Verelst, Dutch miniature and portrait painter (born 1680)