Events from the year 1547 in art.

• Edward VI of England issues Reformation injunctions which leads to the destruction of many rood screens, and many religious works painted over

• date unknown
  • Jacopo Ligozzi, Italian painter, illustrator, designer, and miniaturist of the late Renaissance and early Mannerist styles (died 1627)
  • Matteo Perez d'Aleccio, Italian painter of devotional, historical and maritime subjects (died 1616)
  • Unkoku Togan, Japanese painter (died 1618)
• probable
  • Nicholas Hilliard, English goldsmith and limner best known for his portrait miniatures (died 1619)
  • Jan Soens, Dutch painter from 's-Hertogenbosch (died 1611)
  • Ding Yunpeng, Chinese painter especially of human figures and landscapes (died 1628)

• June 21 – Sebastiano del Piombo (byname of Sebastiano Luciani), Italian Renaissance-Mannerist painter who combined the influences of the Venetian school and the Roman school (born 1485)^[1]
• August 3 – Fra Paolo da Pistoia, Italian painter and Dominican friar (born 1490)
• August 31 - Nicola Filotesio, Italian painter, architect and sculptor (born 1480)
• October 14 - Perino del Vaga, Italian painter (born 1501)
• December 23 - Pellegrino da San Daniele, Italian painter in the late-Quattrocento and Renaissance styles (born 1467)^[2]
• date unknown
  • Jörg Breu the Younger, German painter, son of Jörg Breu the Elder (born 1510)
  • Giovanni Cariani, Italian painter of the high-Renaissance (born 1490)
• probable - Antonio Semini, Italian painter active in his native Genoa (born 1485)