1702 in art

Events

• Completion of the Nyatapola Temple in Nepal by King Bhupatindra Malla.

Paintings

• Ludolf Bakhuizen – The Battle of Vigo Bay
• Ogata Kōrin – Irises
• Sebastiano Ricci
• * Allegory of the princely virtues
• * ''Assumption of the Virgin''

Births

• July 31 – Jean Denis Attiret, French Jesuit missionary and painter
• August 15 – Francesco Zuccarelli, painter, elected to the Venetian Academy in 1763
• December 22 – Jean-Étienne Liotard, Swiss-French painter date unknown
• * Matthijs Accama, Dutch historical and emblematical subjects painter
• * Joseph Aved, also called le Camelot and Avet le Batave, French Rococo portraitist
• * Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, French engraver, portraitist, illustrator, and printmaker
• * Johann Wolfgang Baumgartner, German painter
• * Placido Costanzi, Italian painter of the Costanzi family of artists
• * Ercole Lelli – Italian painter of became director of the Academy at Bologna
• * Carlo Marchionni, Italian sculptor and architect
• * Andrey Matveyev, Russian portraitist
• * Samuel Scott, English marine and topographical painter and etcher
• * James Seymour, English painter known for his equestrian art
• * József Lénárd Wéber, Hungarian sculptor

Deaths

• May 10 – Antonio Gherardi, painter, sculptor and architect
• May 17 – Jan Wyck, Dutch painter of military subjects
• July 22 – Filippo Parodi, sculptor date unknown
• * Federico Agnelli, Italian engraver and printer, active in Milan
• * Isidoro Arredondo, Spanish painter
• * Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter
• * Nicolaes de Vree, Dutch Golden Age painter
• * Marcellus Laroon, Dutch painter and engraver, active in England
• * Didrik Möllerum, Finnish painter
• * Bernardo Racchetti, Italian painter of imaginary vedute