Events from the year 1674 in art.

• The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture holds the first Salon in Paris.^[1]

• Mary Beale – Portrait of Jan Baptist van Helmont (approximate date)
• Claude Lorrain – Seaport
• Gerard de Lairesse – Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple
• Antonio Verrio – The Sea Triumph of Charles II

• January 12 – Alexis Simon Belle French portrait painter (died 1734)
• January 28 - Jean Ranc, French portrait painter (died 1735)
• June 28 – Pier Leone Ghezzi, Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome (died 1755)
• date unknown
  • Diego Francesco Carlone, Italian sculptor (died 1750)
  • Giovanni Costanzi, Italian gem engraver of the late-Baroque period (died 1754)
  • Giuseppe Palmieri, Italian painter (died 1740)
  • Giovanni Battista Parodi, Italian fresco painter (died 1730)
  • Marc van Duvenede, Flemish painter (died 1730)
  • Giampietro Zanotti, Italian painter and art historian of the late-Baroque or Rococo period (died 1765)
• probable – Onofrio Avellino, Italian painter (died 1741)

• February – Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter (born 1596)
• May - Balthazard Marsy, French sculptor (born 1628)
• June 4 – Jan Lievens, Dutch painter and visual artist (born 1607)
• July 30 – Karel Škréta, Czech Baroque painter (born 1610)
• August 12 – Philippe de Champaigne, French Baroque portrait painter (born 1602)
• September 29 – Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Dutch Golden Age painter (born 1621)
• November 4 - Kanō Tanyū, Japanese painter (born 1602)
• date unknown
  • Charles Audran, French engraver (born 1594)
  • Pieter Boel, Flemish painter (born 1626)
  • Pedro de Camprobín, Spanish painter of animals, fruit, and flowers (born 1605)
  • Pieter de Jode II, engraver (born 1601)
  • Chöying Dorje, 10th Karmapa, head of the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism and a painter and sculptor (born 1604)
  • Hu Zhengyan, Chinese artist, printmaker, calligrapher and publisher (born c. 1584)
  • Nicolas Jarry, French calligrapher (born 1620)
  • Vincenzo Manenti, Italian painter who worked on the cathedral at Tivoli (born 1600)
  • Tomás Yepes, Spanish painter of primarily bodegóns (born 1595)
• probable
  • Kun Can, Chinese painter from Hunan who spent most of his life in Nanjing (born 1612)
  • Bartolommeo Torregiani, Italian painter of landscapes and portraits (date of birth unknown)
  • Pieter Xavery, Flemish sculptor (born 1647)