1732 in art

Events

• Nicola Salvi begins work on the new Trevi Fountain

Works

• 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
• William Hogarth – A Midnight Modern Conversation; ''A Harlot's Progress''

Births

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

Deaths

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