1732 in art

Events from the year 1732 in art.

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Events

• Nicola Salvi begins work on the new Trevi Fountain

Works

Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Lady Sealing a Letter, 1732

• Canaletto
  • View of the Entrance to the Venetian Arsenal
  • Return of the Bucentoro to the Molo on Ascension Day
• Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – Lady Sealing a Letter
• Filippo della Valle – Cupid and Psyche (marble; approximate date)
• William Hogarth – A Midnight Modern Conversation; A Harlot's Progress (engravings by the artist)

Births

• January 25 – François Devosge, French portrait painter (died 1811)
• February 22 – Jean-Bernard Restout, French painter (died 1797)
• April 5 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter and printmaker (died 1806)
• May 27 – Christopher Unterberger, Italian painter of the early-Neoclassical period (died 1798)
• November 18 – Pehr Hilleström, Swedish painter and teacher (died 1816)
• date unknown
  • Christian Gottlob Fechhelm, German portrait and historical painter (died 1816)
  • Johanne Seizberg, German-Danish illustrator and teacher (died 1772)
• probable
  • John Julius Angerstein, Russian-born British art collector (died 1823)
  • Carl-Ludwig Christinek, Russian painter (died 1794)

Deaths

• February 18 – Balthasar Permoser, Austrian sculptor (born 1651)
• February 28 – André Charles Boulle, cabinet maker (born 1642)
• August 23 – Felice Boselli, Italian painter (born 1650)
• September 22 – Herman Moll, engraver (born c. 1654)
• October 25 – Andrea Brustolon, Italian sculptor in wood (born 1662)
• date unknown
  • Francesco Bassi, Italian painter (born 1642)
  • Jacques-Philippe Ferrand, French miniaturist and painter in enamel (born 1653)
  • Antonio Gionima, Italian painter (born 1697)
  • Abdulcelil Levni, Turkish/Italian poet and painter, in the service of the court at Istanbul (born 1680)
  • Gasparo Lopez, Italian painter of flowers (born 1677)
  • Michele Pagano, Italian painter of landscapes or vedutista (born 1697)
  • Matthijs Pool, Dutch engraver (born 1676)
  • Giovanni Battista Revello, Italian painter of landscape elements for other historical painters (born 1672)
  • Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter (born 1669)
  • Giuseppe Tonelli, Italian painter of frescoes and quadratura (born 1668)
  • Jan Joost van Cossiau, Flemish landscape painter and engraver (born 1660)
  • Richard Waitt, Scottish portrait painter