Editing 1743 in art (section)

==Births==
* [[January 3]] – [[Joseph-Benoît Suvée]], Flemish painter (died [[1807 in art|1807]])
* [[March 5]] – [[Jean-Simon Berthélemy]], French history painter (died [[1811 in art|1811]])
* [[March 9]] – [[Johann Kaspar Füssli]], Swiss painter (died [[1786 in art|1786]])
* [[May 2]] – [[William Parry (artist)|William Parry]], Welsh portrait painter (died [[1791 in art|1791]])
* [[July 24]] – [[Giocondo Albertolli]], Swiss-born architect, painter, and sculptor who was active in Italy (d. [[1839 in art|1839]])
* [[September 11]] – [[Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard]], Danish Neoclassicist painter (died [[1809 in art|1809]])
* ''probable'' – [[Louis Jean Desprez]], painter and architect (died [[1804 in art|1804]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Jean-Laurent Mosnier]], French painter and miniaturist (died [[1808 in art|1808]])
** [[Erik Westzynthius the Younger]], Finnish painter (died [[1787 in art|1787]])