Cristóvão Lopes succeeds his father Gregório Lopes as the royal painter of King John III of Portugal
Pieter Aertsen – A Meat Stall with the Holy Family Giving Alms
Pietro Negroni – Madonna with Child in Glory and Saints Paul and Luke
Titian – Philip II in Armour
Caterina van Hemessen – Portrait of a Lady (approximate date; Bowes Museum)
March 9 - Alessandro Alberti, Italian painter (died 1596)
April 30 - Jacopo da Empoli, Italian Mannerist painter (died 1640)
Luigi Benfatto, Italian painter, nephew of Paolo Veronese (died 1611)
Jacopo Chimenti, Italian late-mannerist painter (died 1640)
Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter, in 1571 a student in the Bolognese painters’ guild (died 1629)
Tiburzio Vergelli, Italian sculptor and founder (died 1609)
probable
1551/1552: John de Critz, Flemish portrait painter active in England (died 1642)
May 18 - Domenico di Pace Beccafumi, Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter (born 1486)
July - Adriaen Isenbrandt, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (born 1480-1490)
July 11 - Girolamo Genga, Italian painter and architect (born 1476)
date unknown
Diego de Arroyo, Spanish miniature painter (born 1498)
Étienne Peson, French "primitive" painter (born 1485)
Shin Saimdang, Korean genre works painter and calligraphist (born 1504)
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