1692 in art

Events

• The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is founded by the court painter Peter Strudel.
• Godfrey Kneller, court painter in England, is knighted.
• On a winter evening, painter Emanuel de Witte commits suicide by jumping from a bridge with a rope around his neck. The canal freezes over and his body is not found for several weeks.

Paintings

• Antoine Coypel – Democritus
• Cornelis Dusart – The Pedlar
• Sir Godfrey Kneller – Portraits of Lord Archibald Hamilton and Katharine Howard
• Hyacinthe Rigaud
• * La famille Léonard
• * Portrait of Martin Desjardins
• Johann Michael Rottmayr – The Baptism of St. Ottilia by St. Erhard
• Dome of the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, Meteora, Greece

Births

• June 13 – Joseph Highmore, British portrait and historical painter
• September 1 – Egid Quirin Asam, German plasterer and sculptor active during the period of the Late Baroque date unknown
• * Antonio Baldi, Italian painter and engraver
• * Vittorio Bigari, Italian painter
• * Giovanni Domenico Campiglia, Italian painter and engraver from Florence
• * Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Italian Rococo-style painter from Florence
• * Jacob Folkema, Dutch designer and engraver
• * Giovanni Giacomo Monti, Italian painter of quadratura
• * Francesco Zucchi, Italian engraver

Deaths

• January 3 – Roelant Roghman, Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver
• March – Willem de Heusch, Dutch landscape painter
• April – Abraham-César Lamoureux, French sculptor working in Scandinavia
• April 23 – Pieter Withoos, Dutch Golden Age painter
• July – David Loggan, Danzig-born English artist
• July 22 – Pietro del Po, Italian painter
• September 28 – Cornelis Bloemaert, Dutch painter and engraver date unknown
• * Pietro Aquila, Italian painter and printmaker
• * Charles Beaubrun, French portrait painter
• * José de Cieza, Spanish painter
• * Prosper Henricus Lankrink, Flemish painter and art collector working in England
• * Theodore Poulakis, Greek Renaissance painter
• * Emanuel de Witte, Dutch perspective painter