Events from the year 1747 in art.

• August – Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, writes an influential letter on the subject of the Paris Salon.
• Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo joins the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Later in the year he marries Marie-Marguerite Lebrun.

• Francis Bindon – Portrait of Richard Baldwin, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
• Canaletto – London Seen Through an Arch of Westminster Bridge
• Thomas Gainsborough – Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting (Tate Britain)
• Matthäus Günther – Frescos in Amorbach Abbey (1742–47)
• Charles-Joseph Natoire
  • Portrait of Louis, Dauphin of France
  • Saint Stephen and the False Witnesses (for Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés)
  • Triumph of Bacchus (Musée du Louvre)
• Samuel Scott – Wager's Action off Cartagena
• Gervase Spencer – Portrait miniatures

• January 4 – Dominique Vivant, French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist (died 1825)
• March 8 – Johann Peter Melchior, German porcelain modeller (died 1825)
• September 30 – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (died 1822)
• December 8 – Louis Gerverot, French porcelain painter (died 1829)
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  • William Ellis, English engraver (died 1810)
  • Giuseppe Quaglio, Italian painter and stage designer (died 1828)
  • Jean Simeon Rousseau de la Rottière, French decorative painter (died 1820)
  • Margareta Seuerling, Swedish actor and theater director (died 1820)
  • Shiba Kōkan, born Andō Kichirō, Japanese painter and printmaker (died 1818)
  • Francis Wheatley, English painter and engraver (died 1801)

• January 26 – Willem van Mieris, Dutch painter from Leyden (born 1662)
• April 3 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter and draughtsmen (born 1657)
• July 17 – Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Italian painter of the Bolognese School (born 1665)
• November 7 – Giuseppe Melani, Italian painter, active mainly in Pisa (born 1673)
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  • Elias Baeck, German painter and engraver (born 1679)
  • Maurice Baquoy, French engraver (born 1680)
  • Giovanni Battista Canossa, Italian wood engraver (born unknown)
  • Claude Charles, French historical and decorative painter (born 1661)
  • Tommaso Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (born 1700)
  • Michael Ignaz Mildorfer, Austrian painter (born 1690)